[MPlayer-users] RealVideo

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Monday, 19 July 2004 at 17:39, Luiz Fernando wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> My mplayer can't reproduce a RealVideo, I get this error message:
> 
> ---
> Opening video decoder: [realvid] RealVideo decoder
> opening shared obj '/usr/local/lib/RealPlayer8/Codecs/drv4.so.6.0'
> Error: Shared object "libc.so.6" not found
> opening win32 dll 'drv4.so.6.0'
> Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: drv4.so.6.0,
> /usr/local/lib/win32/drv4.so.6.0, /usr/lib/win32/drv4.so.6.0
> Error loading dll
> ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec drv4.so.6.0.
> Read the RealVideo section of the DOCS!
> VDecoder init failed :(
> Opening video decoder: [realvid] RealVideo decoder
> opening win32 dll 'drv43260.dll'
> Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: drv43260.dll,
> /usr/local/lib/win32/drv43260.dll, /usr/lib/win32/drv43260.dll
> Error loading dll
> ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec drv43260.dll.
> Read the RealVideo section of the DOCS!
> VDecoder init failed :(
> Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x30345652.

Well, obviously it couldn't find the codecs it required so it complained.
Download either RealPlayer Linux binary codecs or Windows versions, put
them in appropriate paths and it should work.

> ---
> 
> Then I created two symlinks:
> # pwd
> # /usr/local/lib/win32
> # ln -s /compat/linux/lib/libc.so.6
> # ln -s /compat/linux/lib/ld-linux.so.2
> 
> And I add to libmap.conf these lines:
> 
> ---
> # MPlayer
> [/usr/local/lib/RealPlayer8/Codecs/drv4.so.6.0]
> libc.so.6                      win32/libc.so.6
> 
> [/usr/local/lib/win32/libc.so.6]
> ld-linux.so.2                  win32/ld-linux.so.2
> ---

I'm unfamiliar with *BSD, so I don't know for sure, but isn't the above
completely unnecessary?

R.

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