Linux Real Player?

[DrWowe]

qemu arm has been in the \"testing\" phase for as long as i\'ve followed.

It sounds like an opportunity for a motivated indivudual with a machine that runs Linux on an ARM processor to help finish the job...

[TonyOlsen]

There is \"Real Alternative\"... maybe the source could be recompiled for Zaurus?

[Stubear]

So, if you want to play adom, why don\'t you ask the author for the source so you can compile it for arm natively? I think he\'d give it to you if you promise to keep it for yourself or so (that\'s how I understood the whole matter...). I\'d be interested in a copy as well, but I\'d also try to compile it if you don\'t feel like it, but just now I\'m too busy, maybe in a week or so...

Cheers
Philipp

I\'ll try that but judging from feedback on usenet the author of adom is really possesive of his source code. There is already a request for improvemt to compile it for arm, but there\'s been little visible development on adom in the last year or so.

[zaurusbs]

https://helixcommunity.org/softwaremap/trov...hp?form_cat=326
and this
https://helixcommunity.org/projects/linuxarm/
doesn\'t seem to have gotten very far - anyone know anything about this?
main reason for my interest is this:
http://webjay.org/
this is basically how i listen to music (and watch video) on my desktop, and it would AMAZING to be able to do the same on my 5600. just curious if anyone\'s heard/seen any rumblings of a helix port.

[CoreyC]

Does anyone know if mplayer and/or xine have their own reimplementation of the RP protocol?  If so, that could be another avenue to pursue.  On my laptop I have no problem playing Real streams with them, but I can\'t remember if they use a binary driver or not...

mplayer, no.  Xine has support for realplayer 1 & 2 files, pretty much obsolete now.

Porting helix will only give you the gui that is used with real player, with some support for a few odd audio/video formats that do not include real media files.  What the helix community is waiting for is for the realplayer to be released as open source, something that has been promised for almost a year now but has never happened.

[ThirtyOne]

MPlayer will play Real files on Linux.  It will not play on Zaurus.

This is what I do:

Use mencoder to take a rm stream and covert it to MPEG4 and drop it off in the /var/www/html directory of my apache server.  Then I can stream over http to my zaurus, or copy the file to my zaurus later.

[TonyOlsen]

I take it you\'re runnig Linux on an x86.  I believe the Windows Codecs (including the hacked RealPlayer codec used in \"Real Alternative\") aren\'t completely OS dependant, and so your MEncoder is using the actual, or hacked, Real Player codecs to decode the video before encoding it into MPEG4.

[ScottYelich]

huh?

tony: don\'t you have your wince device yet?

[TonyOlsen]

I don\'t have, nor am I planning on buying, any WinCE devices.

[ThirtyOne]

yes.  you can install mplayer with the win32 codecs on Linux and play most Real and Windows Media content.

There is a Windows port, too but I have never used it.

[TonyOlsen]

So... the codecs are, for the most part, OS independant binary code.

[Stubear]

mplayer running on x86 will can use some (but not all yet) codecs from Windoze, however those codes will NOT run on the arm processor so they are useless for the Z.

Stu

[TonyOlsen]

Yes

[lardman]

So... the codecs are, for the most part, OS independant binary code.

Yes

No. That\'s the problem (I assume), otherwise we\'d be able to use them too. That said, I don\'t really know how they can be loaded under Linux (I don\'t know what they actually are, but I\'d assume ActiveX DLLs or the like).


Si

[Anonymous]

I don\'t know exactly how it works either, but my guess is that they are x86 binaries with known entry points in the DLL, so the linux code just finds the entry points and calls them.  At any rate, mplayer for Linux WILL load and use win32 binary codecs which allows it to play most rm content.

There is supposed to be a helix port to arm to support the new motorolla smart phone that is Linux-based, but I have not seen any activity over there.  That will be the best bet for NATIVE playback.

In the meantime, using my linux box and mencoder works best for getting RealMedia or WMV streams in a format that can be played on my z in near-real-time.  I use it for live baseball and as long as I give it about a 20 minute delay it plays flawlessly.

ThirtyOne