On Sat, 7 Feb 2003, Ryan McDougall wrote: > I just tried installing Real Player so I could answer your question, > and man what a pain in the ass! I couldn't find the unix player on the > homepage so I had to google for it, then downloaded the rpm from what > ever obscure place it was hidden, then downloaded the updated ( RP9 ) > codecs. I got the player to work, but the codecs are in a tgz file and > none of the programs (gunzip,bunzip2,etc) could unzip them! Grrr.
FWIW, the .tgz extension on the codecs file is misleading..... egreshko@misty rpms]$ file rv9_libc6_i386_cs2.tgz rv9_libc6_i386_cs2.tgz: GNU tar archive Just untar them... Somehow I think the "Real Networks" people are some of the most clueless folks on this planet. They hide their "free" RealOne player for M$ and (I hate to admit this) I tried installing it on 2 Win2K systems and while the install completes the application just doesn't run... > Take my advice Nick, dump real player. Try http://www.mplayerhq.hu, it > has basic support for Real codecs, and although its a bit hard to set up > it is worth the effort. Hummm...tempting.... Ed -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
