[KLUG Members] mplayer & real player

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 22:52 -0400, Bruce Smith wrote:
> > Is it possible to use mplayer to listen to real player streams?  
> 
> I've used mplayer to play *.rm files (downloaded, not streams).  
> In fact I've found that mplayer will pay some .rm files that
> realplayer won't.  Works out of the box on SuSE 9.0.
> 
> If you send me a URL, I can try a stream on SuSE 9.0 & 9.1.

At http://www.michiganradio.org/ if I click on "Windows Media Player" it
works,  if I click on Real Player I get "rtsp is not a registered
protocol".

If I go to http://www.npr.org/programs/totn/ and click listen to show, I
can download the ram file, and it doesn't play.  I can open the
resulting file with mplayer, but it just sits there and doesn't do
anything.

At http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/programs/2004/03/11_volf/ the
Listen link opens mplayer, but again, nothing plays.  Clicking play just
doesn't do anything.

Actually I find it a bit amusing that all the Window Media Player links
work, and the Real ones don't.

I'd really rather not install Real as I think it is a really stinky
application.