From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KzwR4-0001b7-Jp for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:49:50 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 77316E03A9; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:49:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpout.karoo.kcom.com (smtpout.karoo.kcom.com [212.50.160.34]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DF7DE03A9 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:49:49 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.33,584,1220223600"; d="scan'208";a="46505528" Received: from unknown (HELO compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org) ([213.152.39.90]) by smtpout.karoo.kcom.com with ESMTP; 11 Nov 2008 16:49:37 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.71] (unknown [192.168.1.71]) by compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0597137AA9 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:49:33 +0000 (GMT) Message-Id: From: Stroller To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <244A2EC0-AE4E-4B37-8E91-8595BF26A227@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v929.2) Subject: 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 Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:49:33 +0000 References: <18710.25193.638469.809440@ccs.covici.com> <244A2EC0-AE4E-4B37-8E91-8595BF26A227@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.929.2) X-Archives-Salt: af153477-018d-4463-bfac-5b7a41f65dca X-Archives-Hash: 5a10b49c56f1c3d9733b4d3c82baac40 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.