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\"Fedora<\/a> \"Helix<\/a> \"Real<\/a>
\nI really dislike RealPlayer<\/a>. This dislike stems from the Windows version of the application, which seems (to me) to install unwanted components and generally act in an intrusive manner; unfortunately the BBC’s streaming audio service<\/a> uses RealAudio<\/a> formats (although some content is available for Windows Media) so if I want to listen to BBC radio over the Internet then I need to install this objectionable piece of software – that’s what I’ve spent the last 2 and a bit hours trying to do on my Linux (Fedora Core 5<\/a>) system here in my hotel room…<\/p>\n

Getting hold of the software is easy enough – just download the RealPlayer for Linux<\/a> from the Real Networks website (there’s even an RPM package). Alternatively there’s a Mozilla-compatible plug-in for access to RealAudio and RealVideo content from within a browser, although I couldn’t seem to get it to work with my Firefox<\/a> installation (having said that, I have a feeling that some of the later troubleshooting steps I followed to get the RealPlayer working might have worked for the plug-in too).<\/p>\n

After downloading RealPlayer 10 for Linux, I opened a terminal session, and entered the following commands:<\/p>\n

su –<\/span>
\nrpm -ivh RealPlayer10GOLD.rpm<\/span>
\ncd \/usr\/local\/RealPlayer\/postinst\/<\/span>
\n.\/postinst.sh<\/span><\/p>\n

I had hoped that this would be all I needed to do, but I still couldn’t access audio from the BBC website. Following advice from a tutorial that includes information on Mozilla plugins<\/a> I ran yum -y install mozplugger<\/span>; however this didn’t seem to help – each time I accessed RealAudio content from the web, the Helix Player<\/a> (upon which RealPlayer for Linux is based) launched and displayed the following message:<\/p>\n

Component Missing<\/span>
\nThe player does not have the capabilities to play back this content.<\/span><\/p>\n

This content is supported by RealPlayer.<\/span><\/p>\n

Clicking on the details button highlighted that the player was looking for the protocol_rtsp_rdt component but googling didn’t turn up much on this. I also checked out the BBC’s audio help advice for Linux\/Unix users<\/a> without too much luck. One tip that may have helped (from a Linux Questions forum post<\/a>) was to create a symbolic link to the RealPlayer plugins for Firefox:<\/p>\n

ln -s \/usr\/local\/RealPlayer\/mozilla\/* \/usr\/lib\/firefox-1.5.0.6\/plugins<\/span><\/p>\n

I finally got a break when I noticed that the Real Player 10 shortcut on the Applications menu didn’t seem to do anything. Looking at the properties for the shortcut (using smeg<\/a>) highlighted the command as realplay<\/span> so I issued the same command from a terminal. This gave me a useful message:<\/p>\n

\/usr\/local\/RealPlayer\/realplay.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.<\/span><\/p>\n

Following Stanton Finley’s Fedora Core 5 installation notes<\/a>, I ran yum -y install compat-libstdc++-33<\/span> after which the realplay command launched the RealPlayer Setup Assistant and I successfully played RealAudio and RealVideo test clips<\/a> directly in the RealPlayer; however accessing RealAudio content from within Firefox still launched the Helix Player, complete with the Component Missing error. Not really knowing how to use MozPlugger<\/a> (other than to view about:plugins<\/a>), I checked the version numbers for the two players and found that Helix Player reported its version number as v1.0.6.778 (experimental) whereas RealPlayer was v10.0.8.805 (gold). Rather than upgrading Helix Player, I removed it using yum -e HelixPlayer<\/span> and found that, although this also removed the RealPlayer 10 application shortcut, I could still call realplay<\/span> from a shell and RealMedia content from NPR<\/a> and the BBC ran successfully both within RealPlayer and Firefox.<\/p>\n

So, that’s RealPlayer working on Fedora Core 5… not exactly painless, and probably not the best way of doing it (some of these steps may well be unnecessary) – hopefully writing these notes up will save someone else a load of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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