[ILUG] RHEL 3.6 and Realplayer 10

[Declan Moriarty]

On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 10:45 +0100, Robert Kiely wrote:
> On 09/06/06, Robert Kiely <robert.kiely at gmail.com> wrote:
>  I'm just going to try compiling
> > my own xmms with mp3 support and see how I get on with that.
> 
> So, I've gotten mp3 support now on 3.6 on the opteron machines. I
> installed xmms-1.2.10 from an rpm from Dag Wieers site and it worked
> straight off. However, still have the problem of playing .ram files
> (RealAudio and RealVideo files), they have no sound. I'm trying now to
> use Mplayer and after installing about 18 or so packages due to
> dependencies I now have Mplayer running but it won't play .ram files.
> It says it can't find avisynth.dll... I've installed the all codecs
> package from mplayer's site so I've no idea why it can't play the .ram
> files. Any more help would definintely be appreciated...

Have a look at the compiling expert's instructions

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/stable/multimedia/mplayer.html

There's an impressive list of Optional packages. Now when you have the
correct codecs, libs, and dlls, you'll have to recompile with them in
place. Cpmpiling in the multimedia area goes on, and on, and on...

Don't worry too much about version numbers. If they say you need
<blah>-3.6.2, it may be because blah-3.6.2 is what they're currently
compiling with, and not because it needs that revision exactly.
Configure usually throws you out if your version is bad.
-- 
        With Best Regards,

        Declan Moriarty.