Re: output options?

[Matthew Campbell]

>I suspect this is true.  Is this also why trplayer doesn't support 
>stdout?  I am a little confused regarding the relationship of trplayer to 
>Real Networks, and its relationship to the open source community.

I develop trplayer using the RealSystem G2 software development kit
from RealNetworks, and it is based on the testplay sample program,
which is included in that SDK.  The SDK comes with a pretty
restricted license agreement, so I can't release trplayer under a
truly open-source license.  I may be able to release the source code
under a restricted license; I haven't heard back from RealNetworks
about that yet.  Normally, I would release anything I develop as
open-source software.

About implementing output to standard out, the license agreement says
that I can't "create a Licensee Application that transcodes any RN
[RealNetworks] file format or data type into any other file format or
data type."  I guess that includes standard wave output sent to
standard out.

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