On 9 Nov 2008, at 05:01, Stroller wrote:
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It's not clear to me from this post whether Realplayer & these
codecs are actually needed by mplayer in order to play .rm & .ram
playlists & audio files. One would assume so, except for beandog's
statement "Chances are, you don't need them anyway. The codecs are
hardly used anymore, and most people will be fine without them."
I have been thinking recently to record Pete Tong & the other
Friday / Saturday night Radio 1 DJs using cron & mplayer, so I can
burn their shows to CD-R & listen to them in the car during the
week. As a consequence later tonight I will be testing mplayer's
ability to handle http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/realaudio/media/r1live.ram
without these packages installed.
Radio 1 is still working perfectly here with USE="-real" and without
media-libs/win32codecs / media-libs/realcodecs
Something like:
mplayer -playlist http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/realaudio/media/r1live.ram
should work fine.
Because I don't have speakers on my Linux box and because I want to
keep a copy of the original recording, I actually -dumpfle, then
convert that to .wav here, but this is just a variation on the above.
Stroller.
