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pickarooney
11-21-2003, 04:54 PM
Is there any way to view .rm files in full screen?
Linux Real Player doesn't allow for it, and mplayer will display the video but I can't get it to play the audio.
Satanic Atheist
11-21-2003, 08:25 PM
MPlayer WILL play the Audio because it works on mine. Do you have ALL the realplayer codecs loaded? I believe there there... RP5. RP6 and RP-Extras.

James
pickarooney
11-22-2003, 06:01 AM
I must be missing an audio codec. Do you know the package/taball name of the real player audio codec ?

<edit> I downloaded a realplayer9 codec pack (rp9codecs.tar.bz2) and a win32 pack (rp9win32codecs.tar.bz2). Should I uncompress them to the /usr/lib/RealPlayer8/Codecs/ and /usr/lib/win32 respectively? Or should I make a Realplayer9 directory?

Any changes need to be made in the gmplayer setup?
Satanic Atheist
11-22-2003, 11:37 AM
Sorry, I'm wrong. It was QuickTime that had three packages.

All codecs that do not install themselves should go in /usr/lib/win32 before you compile.

Make sure you use the correct switches when compiling as well.

James
pickarooney
11-30-2003, 01:39 PM
I'm sorry, I don't know how/what to compile, or what switches are.
Satanic Atheist
11-30-2003, 01:46 PM
Right. MPlayer comes as a source package. That means it needs to be compiled into machine code so that the computer can read it. Once it's compiled, it's known as a Binary which is a term you'll find a lot in Linux.

A switch is an argument passed to a command or program to modify the output. With a simple command such as ls you could append the switch -l which gives a longer listing.

When you compile MPlayer, you need to pass through the correct switches or arguments so that it knows where to find pieces of itself (such as codecs) as well as optimising itself.

James
pickarooney
11-30-2003, 02:29 PM
Fair enough, but as my luck/skill with compilation has always been atrocious, I always opt for the package option where possible, which is what I did with mplayer. In theory then I probably have all the bits necessary but don't know how to get mplayer to recognise them.
I need to remove the package and learn to compile it from source, right?