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Realplayer G2 for Linux

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the listen-and-love dept.

Skijk writes "Realplayer G2 is finally here for Linux. You can get it at Real Player. " The folks at RealNetworks are calling it an Alpha, but I've heard good reports on its' stability-how's it working for everyone?

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  1. Works for me! Buggy as Hell! :) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5

    After some fiddling, I got it to work w/o a
    hitch. I run Linux 2.3.3, with egcs (and it's
    libstdc++), and glibc 2.1.1pre1. My system is
    based on an old a.out Slackware install from 1995,
    upgraded by hand to ELF and then to total glibc.
    So it's a non-distribution really, nothing of
    slackware left -- DIY (do it yourself distro).

    It wants libstdc++ 2.8, so I went into /usr/lib
    and made a link called that pointing to version
    2.9 (egcs's version) -- Install worked, but
    there was a unresolved symbol.

    I downloaded RH 5.2's libstdc++ 2.8, installed that,
    added the appropriate environment variable to
    by bash config, and everything went peachy.

    A few bugs I noted:

    1) It forgets about the clip (the URL, the .ram
    file, whatever) immediately after playing it.
    Pressing PLAY again says that the URL is out of
    date, or some such.

    2) The default audio volume is really low -- and
    it resets it with every new clip loaded. So you
    have to move the volume slider down and up again
    to hear the audio portion.

    3) You cant zoom the video in the window (i.e.
    play at double size).

    4) As a consequence of #1 (forgetting URLs), it
    cant play the AudioNet/Broadcast.com style, where
    it plays their 20 second plug, then forwards you
    to the content you wanted.

    5) RealPlayer doesnt come w/ a default, or demo
    clip -- but the one suggested under Open Location
    doesnt work (it says that you are missing some
    components to play that one)

    rtsp://g2home.real.com/install/welcome.smi

    (err, that one...it starts buffering, resizes the
    playback window, then pops up the error -- yes my
    environment variable was set)

    Other than that, it's fine. Speed and quality at
    least as good as the previous versions (except
    for the bugs. of course)



  2. HOW TO GET IT WORKING IN NETSCAPE! READ HERE! by Panix · · Score: 5

    Okay, as many of you seem frustrated and can't get it working in Netscape, here is the deal. Edit -> preferences -> navigator -> Applications. From here, find the real player item, open it, and tell it to use an application "realplay %s". The key thing here is the %s. I have no idea how to get the inline plugins working, if anyone knows, tell me.