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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Ron Clarke wrote:

> Hi Sindi,
> 
> On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 17:48:47 -0500 (EST)
> Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com> wrote:
> 
> > The realplayer file is not a tar.gz but a bin and there is nothing in 
> > mcmenu about .bin files.
> 
>    What on earth did you get hold of ?

A tiger by the tail?

>    Go to http://forms.real.com/real/player/unix/unix.html fill in the form
> and click on the "download player", then also get the updated codecs for 
> the same.

I think that is what I did to get the .bin file.  I know I filled in a
form.  There may have been a choice of .bin or .tar.gz and I assumed that
one was precompiled and the other was not and I am not good at compiling.  
It came with instructions to chmod +x and run it, I think.  I will look
again.  I have not seen .bin files before.  Should I be downloading a
.tar.gz?  


What is a codec?  Windows Realplayer seems to keep downloading
those when I try to play radio stations.

Maybe I got a .bin that needs a later library and kernel?  Would that 
cause a segmentation fault?  

> 
> 
> > I think the Windows version played a lot of other formats too.  I might 
> > be 
> > wrong.
> 
>    No, it doesn't.

Maybe it was RealOne then.  I did not like their menu (cannot be accessed 
without a mouse) so I downgraded back to Realplayer 8.  At some point 
Realplayer wanted me to let it play ALL audio formats in Windows.  I also 
downgraded from WMP 7.1 back to whatever came with Win98 to get rid of the 
skins and visualizations, which Realplayer thankfully lets you set as 
'none'.  Is there a linux equivalent of WMP?  

> Regards,
>          Ron
> 
> 
>