Re: Announcing trplayer 1.0.0: An Accessible RealMedia Player

Re: Announcing trplayer 1.0.0: An Accessible RealMedia Player

[Martin McCormick]

	I briefly got on to the Realnetworks site and I see that
they have realplayer8.  Where do I get realplayer7 or does 8 also
work with trplayer?

	By the way, a thousand thanks for making this available.

Martin McCormick

Re: Announcing trplayer 1.0.0: An Accessible RealMedia Player

[Christopher Moore]

Martin,
First you go into the download link.  Then, you need to page down until
you find something that says "download free realplayer 7 Beta".  Then you
need to fill out a form with a few questions.  When you get to the
platform, choose linux rpm.  
I just reached that step myself, after first making the mistake of
downloading the self-extracting version.
GL
Chris

73, Chris w1gm@sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org

Re: Announcing trplayer 1.0.0: An Accessible RealMedia Player

[brent harding]

What's wrong with the self-extracting version? I got it working, despite
the can't set x display if I run it directly, don't need that feature
anyway, as if it'd go in to x I wouldn't know how to get out.
>Martin,
>First you go into the download link.  Then, you need to page down until
>you find something that says "download free realplayer 7 Beta".  Then you
>need to fill out a form with a few questions.  When you get to the
>platform, choose linux rpm.  
>I just reached that step myself, after first making the mistake of
>downloadin the self-extracting version.
>GL
>Chris
>
>73, Chris w1gm@sdf.lonestar.org
>SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
>
>
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Re: Announcing trplayer 1.0.0: An Accessible RealMedia Player

[Kirk Wood]

If anyone is still having trouble getting the Real PLayer RPM let me know
and I can help you out.

-- 
Kirk Wood
Cpt.Kirk@1tree.net
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		Alfred North Whitehead

Re: Announcing trplayer 1.0.0: An Accessible RealMedia Player

[Jason Fayre]

Could someone send me the link for trplayer?  I seem to have deleted the
message with the announcement.


On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Christopher Moore wrote:

> Martin,
> First you go into the download link.  Then, you need to page down until
> you find something that says "download free realplayer 7 Beta".  Then you
> need to fill out a form with a few questions.  When you get to the
> platform, choose linux rpm.  
> I just reached that step myself, after first making the mistake of
> downloading the self-extracting version.
> GL
> Chris
> 
> 73, Chris w1gm@sdf.lonestar.org
> SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
> 
> 
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Re: Announcing trplayer 1.0.0: An Accessible RealMedia Player

[brent harding]

When it says can't set display, it means it wants to start x-windows anduse
a graphical install, it plainly won't work unless you use x.
At 09:53 AM 7/5/00 -0500, you wrote:
>	I got and installed trplayer-1.0.1.  I also went to the
>Realnetworks web site which is only slightly less fun than
>slamming one's little finger in a car door or getting a root
>canal.
>
>	I got the UNIX version of RealPlayer7 after filling out
>the form to their satisfaction.
>
>	It is the self-extracting binary so I made it executable.
>I get a "can't open display" error from the binary and that's
>right about where things sit right now.  This is a Debian system
>and I have not yet included the sound support in the kernel, but
>one would expect the extractor to act like it was extracting,
>first.  There, then, might be a complaint about there being no
>sound support or maybe a crash, but it looks like the binary of
>rp7 isn't extracting.
>
>	Here are some issues that might be important.  I
>downloaded the RealPlayer 7 binary to a different system than the
>one it will reside on.  After the successful download, I copied
>the binary to the right system and uncompressed it.
>
>
>	I also shortened the name of the binary to make it easier
>to remember in my short memory.  If it looks at argv[0], then I
>am in trouble.
>
>	I even logged in through the console and SU'd to root and
>tried it from there and got the same results.
>
>	The trplayer executable is in /usr/local/bin, all ready
>to go.
>
>Martin
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Re: Announcing trplayer 1.0.0: An Accessible RealMedia Player

[Martin McCormick]

	After finding more messages on this thread, I second the
idea of the tar ball.  The X part seems to kill the
self-extracter, all right.

Martin McCormick

Re: Announcing trplayer 1.0.0: An Accessible RealMedia Player

[Martin McCormick]

	I got and installed trplayer-1.0.1.  I also went to the
Realnetworks web site which is only slightly less fun than
slamming one's little finger in a car door or getting a root
canal.

	I got the UNIX version of RealPlayer7 after filling out
the form to their satisfaction.

	It is the self-extracting binary so I made it executable.
I get a "can't open display" error from the binary and that's
right about where things sit right now.  This is a Debian system
and I have not yet included the sound support in the kernel, but
one would expect the extractor to act like it was extracting,
first.  There, then, might be a complaint about there being no
sound support or maybe a crash, but it looks like the binary of
rp7 isn't extracting.

	Here are some issues that might be important.  I
downloaded the RealPlayer 7 binary to a different system than the
one it will reside on.  After the successful download, I copied
the binary to the right system and uncompressed it.


	I also shortened the name of the binary to make it easier
to remember in my short memory.  If it looks at argv[0], then I
am in trouble.

	I even logged in through the console and SU'd to root and
tried it from there and got the same results.

	The trplayer executable is in /usr/local/bin, all ready
to go.

Martin

Re: Announcing trplayer 1.0.0: An Accessible RealMedia Player

[Martin McCormick]

	Some appologies for wasting everybody's time.  I only do
that on purpose with spammers.  After reading all the rest of the
messages regarding realplayer7, etc, maybe I should refrase my
question.  What do I need to do on the realnetworks site to get
the correct player that will work with the latest trplayer?

	Actually, I have a more immediate problem in that I
haven't yet finished configuring the Linux system I use for
sound, but the lack of anything much to do was one of the reasons
for my procrastination.  Now, it looks like I really can do
something neat so I had better get going.

Martin McCormick WB5AGZ  Stillwater, OK 
OSU Center for Computing and Information Services Data Communications Group

Re: Announcing trplayer 1.0.0: An Accessible RealMedia Player

[Jim Wantz]

Hi Matt, thanks to Bill Acker and Kirk I have been playing with trplayer
for a couple of weeks.  Its a great program!

    Jim


On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Matthew Campbell wrote:

> trplayer is a RealMedia player for Linux which has a text-based
> interface instead of a graphical interface.  This makes it fully
> accessible to blind users and others who can't use the graphical user
> interface or prefer the text interface.  trplayer supports all media
> formats supported by RealPlayer 7 (RealAudio, RealVIdeo, MP3, etc.).
> In presentations which involve video and other visual media, trplayer
> plays the audio and discards the rest.
> 
> trplayer is available for Linux and is a free download.  The trplayer
> home page is at:
> 
> http://www.linux-speakup.org/trplayer.html
> 
> You will also need RealPlayer 7 for Linux in order to use trplayer.
> 
> Enjoy,
> -- 
> Matt Campbell <mattcamp@crosswinds.net>
> Web site:  http://www.crosswinds.net/~mattcamp/
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Re: Announcing trplayer 1.0.0: An Accessible RealMedia Player

[Janina Sajka]

Bravo, Matt! And, thank you for making streaming audio easier to use and
enjoy. I know there will continue to be enhancements and improvements to
all of the Linux tools used by blind Linux users, but yours is one very
persuasive one. It further takes away anyone's remaining reasons to
struggle with older outmoded operating environments in the best possible
way--by providing a tool that's no more complicated to use than it has to
be to get the job done. Way to go, Matt!


-- 

				Janina Sajka, Director
				Information Systems Research & Development
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

janina@afb.net

Re: Announcing trplayer 1.0.0: An Accessible RealMedia Player

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Hi Matt!

Congratulations on the release of trplayer! It looks like a much needed
addition to the arsenal...

I have just implemented a "filter" to pull an http address out of a .pls
or .m3u file and pass it along to an mp3 player - I have been playing with
mpg123 since I cannot run freeamp on this system - and so I substituted
trplayer for mpg123 in my scripts. On the speakup audio page, I find that
trplayer works great on all the .ra and .ram links, and also on the
acbradio .pls  link, but on Kirk's egoplay.pls link it is silent for a
while then gives up. Does that link work for you with trplayer? mpg123
will not handle it either, but gives sporadic bursts of sound until it too
gives up. My connection is a 33.6 dialup modem.

Chuck.


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A well adjusted person is one who makes
the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

Announcing trplayer 1.0.0: An Accessible RealMedia Player

[Matthew Campbell]

trplayer is a RealMedia player for Linux which has a text-based
interface instead of a graphical interface.  This makes it fully
accessible to blind users and others who can't use the graphical user
interface or prefer the text interface.  trplayer supports all media
formats supported by RealPlayer 7 (RealAudio, RealVIdeo, MP3, etc.).
In presentations which involve video and other visual media, trplayer
plays the audio and discards the rest.

trplayer is available for Linux and is a free download.  The trplayer
home page is at:

http://www.linux-speakup.org/trplayer.html

You will also need RealPlayer 7 for Linux in order to use trplayer.

Enjoy,
-- 
Matt Campbell <mattcamp@crosswinds.net>
Web site:  http://www.crosswinds.net/~mattcamp/
ICQ #:  33005941