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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>]

sindi keesan wrote:

> On Sat, 25 Jun 2005, David Moberg wrote:
>
> > Yes, these are the older 14.4 and 28.8 bitrate standard
> > Realaudio files. GPL'd source code is available for these
> > older codecs. The newer ones are binary-only.
> 
> I also have these two codecs from the rp8 package, the only two 
> that were not overwritten by rp9 codecs.  Do I understand correctly 
> that I don't really need these two codecs because they come in 
> mplayer,

Yes. Look in mplayer -ac help for a list of codecs. If there is no
extension for the codec, it is built in. There are multiple entries
for ra144/288.

> and all I need is the rp9 codecs (the larger OLD package 
> that Steven is using)?

Steven said that the rp9 atrac needed a newer libc. Other than that,
it should work. Once we have tested all of the codecs, we can know
for sure.

> >>> Maybe I need more than the rp9 codecs?
> >>
> >> Are you sure you have the right rp9 codec?  Some are for
> >> Macs or Windows.  Some have awkward library dependencies
> >> (libstdc++.so.5).
> This was a tar.bz2 and I have not checked dependencies.

libstdc++ is very common. MPlayer would have needed it if I
didn't compile statically. Every dynamic C++ program needs it.

David

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