Re: [gentoo-user] win32codecs / realcodecs / amd64codecs (and the -real USE flag) was: Re: How do I fix multiple versions for the same package slot have been pulled

[Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>]

On 9 Nov 2008, at 05:01, Stroller wrote:
> ...
> It's not clear to me from this post whether Realplayer & these  
> codecs are actually needed by mplayer in order to play .rm & .ram  
> playlists & audio files. One would assume so, except for beandog's  
> statement "Chances are, you don't need them anyway. The codecs are  
> hardly used anymore, and most people will be fine without them."
>
> I have been thinking recently to record Pete Tong & the other  
> Friday / Saturday night Radio 1 DJs using cron & mplayer, so I can  
> burn their shows to CD-R & listen to them in the car during the  
> week. As a consequence later tonight I will be testing mplayer's  
> ability to handle http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/realaudio/media/r1live.ram 
>  without these packages installed.

Radio 1 is still working perfectly here with USE="-real" and without  
media-libs/win32codecs / media-libs/realcodecs

Something like:
   mplayer -playlist http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/realaudio/media/r1live.ram
should work fine.

Because I don't have speakers on my Linux box and because I want to  
keep a copy of the original recording, I actually -dumpfle, then  
convert that to .wav here, but this is just a variation on the above.

Stroller.