[20742] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 9.1.15: RealPlayer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Wed Sep 18 15:03:48 2002
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 15:03:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: "Roger A. Roach" <rar@MIT.EDU>
cc: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>, <f_l@MIT.EDU>, <bugs@MIT.EDU>,
<amu@alum.MIT.EDU>
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Oh, excellent! I know, though, that there are streams version 7 will
refuse to play - that's why I went for the same conclusion you did.
As for rp8, I THOUGHT I had been to that page (about a week and a half
ago) and didn't see anything better than 7. Maybe it was a different page.
URL is similar. I'll look again.
-t
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Roger A. Roach wrote:
>
> 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
> >
>
>
>
