[20738] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 9.1.15: RealPlayer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Wed Sep 18 13:49:07 2002
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 13:49:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: "Roger A. Roach" <rar@MIT.EDU>
cc: <bugs@MIT.EDU>, <f_l@MIT.EDU>, Alex Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
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Yes. Your diagnosis is probably correct.
Unfortunately there are no more recent versions of RealPlayer for Unix.
And I don't just mean there are no more free versions. I mean no more. In
fact, if you now go to Real's site you will have trouble finding a page
that ever admits they made a Unix version in the past at all. You can no
longer download them.
I would be very interested in any sort of alternate legal approach in Unix
for handling these media types, but I suspect, like QuickTime, the format
is locked up tight. (Apparently any time a Unix hacker tries to make
something that plays the Sorensen codec, Apple either changes the format
or sues them.)
[cc'd to f_l and alexp as an FYI since this is not the first question I've
gotten about our antiquated realplayer.]
- Todd
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Roger A. Roach wrote:
> System name: rar.mit.edu
> Type and version: Sun-Blade-100 9.1.15 (with mkserv)
> Display type: ifb
>
> Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh
> Window manager: sawfish
>
> What were you trying to do?
> Attend a Webcast on Authentication
>
> What's wrong:
> I invoked the URL:
> http://www.stonesoup.org/Meeting.next/CSG_Workshop_Live.ram
>
> and in invoked RealPlayer which gave me an error: Invalid file version number.
>
> What should have happened:
> This seems to happen every time I try to listen to a webcast. I
> assume the RealPlayer is out of date.
>
> Please describe any relevant documentation references:
> [Please replace this line with your information.]
>
