[plug] RealPlayer XMMS plugin

[William Kenworthy]

alternative: vsound is a wrapper that grabs the audio from an
application (like realplayer) and writes it to disk (and can play it at
the same time if required!).

BillK

On Thu, 2002-01-03 at 12:43, craig at postnewspapers.com.au wrote:
> Hi all
> I remember a while ago I asked about getting RealPlayer working with the
> VIA cxCRAP AC97 Audio Controller. Well, I got it working, and as a few
> others expressed having similar problems with RealPlayer's... odd... OSS
> dsp handling, thought I'd mention it.
> 
> There is an xmms plugin, rmxmms, that uses an installed copy of
> RealPlayer 8 as a decoding filter or something and feeds the output
> through XMMS. Good for those of you using aRts, ALSA, esd (only
> technically working in realplayer), or crap OSS
> drivers. 
> 
> Works wonders... and that way you can use the DiskWriter plugin to
> record shows if you're not there using cron and xxms-console. *woohoo*
> 
> Now I just have to figure out how to stream the diskwriter output to 
> lame or the vorbis encoder. Ideas anybody?
> 
> URLs for plugin:
> http://xmms.org/plugins_input.html
> ftp://ftp.xmms.org/xmms/plugins/rmxmms/libreal.so
> ftp://ftp.xmms.org/xmms/plugins/rmxmms/
> 
> -- 
> Craig Ringer
> IT Manager, POST Newspapers
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