RealPlayer

Introduction

RealPlayer (briefly known also as RealOne Player) is a closed source cross-platform media player by RealNetworks that plays a number of multimedia formats including MP3, MPEG-4, QuickTime, Windows Media, and multiple versions of proprietary RealAudio and RealVideo formats.

Usage

Compute Systems Invocation Version(s)
Red Hat Linux (64-bit) % /util/bin/realplay 11.1.1.2953

Notes

  1. Add /util/RealPlayer to your PATH variable to invoke realplay from the command line: 

    
% setenv PATH ${PATH}:/util/RealPlayer

Install RealPlayer

Install a shared RealPlayer in /util: 


% cd /util
# mkdir RealPlayer-11.1.1.2953
% cd RealPlayer-11.1.1.2953/
# bunzip2 realplay-11.1.1.2953-linux-2.2-libc6-gcc32-i586.tar.bz2
# tar -xvf realplay-11.1.1.2953-linux-2.2-libc6-gcc32-i586.tar
# rm realplay-11.1.1.2953-linux-2.2-libc6-gcc32-i586.tar
% cd /util
# rm RealPlayer
# ln -s RealPlayer-11.1.1.2953/ RealPlayer

Install nphelix.so Plugin

Install the Mozilla Firefox RealPlayer plugin on 64-bit systems by wrapping the RealPlay plugin with the 32-bit plugin wrapper:

  • Build Mozilla Firefox RealPlayer plugin into a shared /util version of Firefox:

    sudo /usr/lib64/nspluginwrapper/npconfig -d /util/firefox-3.5.2/lib/firefox-3.5.2/plugins/ -i /util/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.so

  • Build Mozilla Firefox RealPlayer plugin into a local /usr version of Firefox:

    sudo /usr/lib64/nspluginwrapper/npconfig -d /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/ -i /util/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.so

... Both of these commands will build and install a file called: 


npwrapper.nphelix.so

... into the target directory specified with -d.

References

  1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealPlayer
  2. http://www.real.com/
  3. http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux-amd64.html
  4. http://forms.helixcommunity.org/helix/builds/?category=realplay-current