From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (qmail 15548 invoked from network); 30 Jun 1998 13:01:35 -0000 Received: from serv1.is2.u-net.net (194.119.130.23) by mail2.redhat.com with SMTP; 30 Jun 1998 13:01:35 -0000 Received: from p38.nas2.is5.u-net.net [195.102.197.166] by serv1.is2.u-net.net with smtp (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0yqzmK-0007O3-00; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 13:44:59 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: From: Toby Fisher Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 12:57:20 +0000 X-Mailer: Net-Tamer 1.11 Subject: Getting Real Audio to work was: Unidentified subject! Message-Id: List-Id: On 1998-06-30 blinux-list@redhat.com said: >On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Toby Fisher wrote: >> Is their a version of Real Audio Player that _doesn't_ require >X-Windows? No. The company who produced RealAudio and RealVideo >didn't even release exact specifications of the compression format >they use for RealAudio and therefore for RealPlayer. Hmmm, I guess that's so people have to register it. Mind you, I did hear something about a Command-line interface for one of the earlier versions of Real Audio, any ideas? >> I have neither the ram nor the inclination to run X. >You dont need to run the whole X-Windows. RAP (formaly traplayer) >is a script which starts RealPlayer with the Xvfb (X virtual Frame >Buffer server). This is something like 'n X-Emulation where >programs can be run with. Ok, so where can I get RAP and does the above mean I need to download X from somewhere? >Unfortunately the main problem with this technique is that no >feedback of RealPlayer can be sent to Console. So no error will be >reported. I too had major problems getting this to work. >I think you cant even tell if the url really exists you have >requested because RealPlayer reports this through X. And I think it >doesn't automatically stop running. SO it will remain in a quite >undefined state till you kill it or stop Rap/Traplayer with ctrl-c. That's probably not a significant problem, if I can collar a friend to help me set it up. -- 73, de Toby Fisher: email: toby@cottingham.u-net.com tel:0411-604309 mobile; Homepage, http://www.personal.u-net.com/~cottingham Nettamer, the best dos-based ppp package around; visit http://www.nettamer.net/ and find out for yourself! Data, data everywhere, and not a byte to eat. Net-Tamer V 1.11 - Registered