Are these files downloaded or streamed? Owen
On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 18:37 -0800, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote: > I'm enrolled in an online class with lectures in realmedia > format.I'm looking for a player that can to fast forward > through the files. > > neither > realplayer (v10) > nor > xine > > work OK.. > > The free download from realmedia (v10 or 10-5 forget which), > plays the files just fine, except I can't fast forward > through them (the FF button is greyed out, and if I push the > time slider forward, the timer starts incrementing again, > but the image is frozen at the frame when I started moving > the slider). If I stop half way through the 1hr lecture and > exit, I have to hear the whole first 30mins again. > > The real site says you can fastforward.... but > > As a control I downloaded the windows version of realplayer. > The fastforward button is not greyed, but even though you > press it, it doesn't FF. > > There is a version of realplay for $19.95 or so, but they > aren't clear about whether it's linux or windows or if you > can fast forward. > > I tried compiling up xine and put all the codecs from "all" > and "essential" in /usr/lib/win32 (which according to the > xine FAQ is all I need to do) but xine won't recognise my > real files. The output from the xine build says that it > plays real format 1 and format 2. I have no idea which > format real file I have (`file` just says "real media") > > Windows media player does a very nice job, except I don't > want to have to run windows > > Helix player doesn't recognise real. > > Are there any better players for real? > > Thanks Joe > > -- > Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina > jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map > generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml > Homepage http://www.austintek.com/ It's GNU/Linux! -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
