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[Ron Clarke <ariadne AT earthlink.com.au>]

Hi David,

On Tue, 24 May 2005 14:39:10 -0500
"David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com> wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org
>  
> > David Moberg wrote:
> > >
> > > > ==================================================================
> > > > Requested audio codec family [racook] (afm=realaud) not available.
> > > > Enable it at compilation.
> > > > Cannot find codec for audio format 0x6B6F6F63.
> > > > Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!
> > > > ==================================================================
> > >
> > > This means that you don't have the racook codec.
> > 
> > So that means your version of mplayer doesn't do Realaudio?
> 
> It does and it doesn't. MPlayer can "demux" (i.e. understand the
> container format of) Realaudio. MPlayer comes with several codecs
> which are used in Real media formats, so it can decode some RA/RV
> files correctly, but there are several other codecs used in these
> files (like racook) which are not free because Real has not given
> anyone the specifications to build a decoder. (The racook codec is
> basically a Windows codec with a wrapper around it to allow it to
> work on Linux.) Usually, you will not find these codecs distributed
> with MPlayer. I have not distributed them either, as the codecs
> are very large.

    Would your player3 be able to use codecs that were NOT compiled-in, but 
are available in my file system ?
Or doesn't it even look for them ?
 
> If you can do a little hacking, it may be possible to get these
> codecs to work. It's not a sure thing. It may be better to get
> the Real player if you want to decode these.

    I already have RealPlayer working, but I am wondering if your mplayer3 
will be able to use codecs that I have installed on my SlackWare9.1 
partition.  I am not going to even try hacking, I wouldn't know where to 
start.

Regards,
        Ron

-- 
Ron Clarke 
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