Subject: Re: RealVideo player
To: Oleg Polyanski <luke@eed.miee.ru>
From: David Heller & <dheller1@rochester.rr.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/02/1999 16:09:40
On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, you wrote:
> >>>>> "LS" == Laine Stump writes:
>
> LS> Does anyone know if Real Networks plans to release a G2 player for Linux?
> LS> Or have they decided to drop support for everything but Mac and Windows?
>
> real networks already released linux version of g2 player. this
> player works MUCH better than rvplayer 5.0. i recommend you forget
> about the old one.
>
> installation is very simple (i even installed it from rpm packege, it
> installed into `/usr/bin' but i decided to forget about that
> crime. may be i will try to reinstall with relocated root directory):
>
> - install linux emulation package or setup your existing linux
> installation (for example, i just mounted linux partition over
> `/emul/linux');
> - start realplayer.
>
> p.s. "much better" means that it requires much less cpu resources and
> (finally) writes to `/dev/dsp' with chunks larger than one byte. i have two
> seti@home clients working in background (load average is about 3 on my
> p2-350) and they don't affect on real video playing (300 kbps).
Which linux emulation package? I installed the Suse Linux emulator. But that
does not appear to work with Real Player G2 as G2 uses glibc libraries which
are not installed with the emul package. Or does Real Player G2 come linked
against libc5 ? .
Thanks
Dave