[20741] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 9.1.15: RealPlayer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roger A. Roach)
Wed Sep 18 14:42:57 2002
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To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
cc: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>, rar@MIT.EDU, f_l@MIT.EDU, bugs@MIT.EDU,
amu@alum.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 18 Sep 2002 14:33:08 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 14:42:55 -0400
From: "Roger A. Roach" <rar@MIT.EDU>
Amazing! I deleted .raplayerrc and tried again. It worked! Thank you!
> Roger writes:
>
> > 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.
>
> It works fine for me- watching it now. Tried on an Ultra 5 (launched
> from Netscape) and on a Blade (launched from Mozilla). Could something
> be misconfigured on your machine or in your dotfiles?
>
> Todd writes:
>
> >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.
>
> and Aaron replies:
>
> >It looks like you can actually still download RealPlayer 8 for Unix
> >(including Linux, Solaris, and IRIX) from
> ><http://forms.real.com/real/player/unix/unix.html>;
>
> I can confirm that RealPlayer 8 is available at least for Linux- my laptop
> running straight RedHat 7.2 is running RealPlayer 8.0.3.421. I think we
> should upgrade, but suspect that that isn't the cause of the problem.
>
> Alex
>
