Free realplayer software for linux

RealPlayer plays streaming audio and video over the Internet in real-time. RealPlayer plays RealAudio, RealVideo, MP3, 3GPP Video, Flash, SMIL 2.0, JPEG, GIF, PNG, RealText, Ogg Vorbis, RealPix and Ogg Theora.
It is available for Windows, Macintosh, Pocket PC, Nokia 9200 Series, Nokia 7650, Palm OS 5-based handhelds, Linux, Solaris, and many Unix variants.
Main features:
Play popular datatypes
- RealPlayer@ 10 supports RealAudio, RealVideo 10, MP3, Ogg Vorbis and Theora, H263, AAC and more. Get ready for accelerated video, full screen playback, and a lot more to play.
Mozilla-compatible plug-in
- You can now watch and listen to embedded video right in your Web browser without opening RealPlayer. Enjoy media from your favorite music and news sites with just one click.
New UI adopts your theme
- The elegant UI design is based on GTK technology. That means the player adopts the theme youve chosen, and blends itself accordingly into your desktop environment.
Enhancements:
- fixes

libreplay library will save the output of realplay in a raw format, so you can do what you want with this uncompressed data later in time.

When you use realplay, sometimes you would like to save the sound that you ear, to be able to listen to it later in time. But realplay doesnt have a save or export button, so libreplay dose that for you.

Installation

Just do a make in the directory, should be alright. There will be the file libreplay.so which contains everything usefull.

Usage

This documentation is only valid for version 0.3 of libreplay. Avoid using 0.1, it crashes too much realplay. (Version 0.2 does not have LIBREPLAY_AUDIO support.)

You must set the variable LIBC_PATH to the place where your libc is (something like /lib/libc.so.6). If you are under bash, just do export LIBC_PATH=/lib/libc.so.6
(replace /lib/libc.so.6 by your libc of course).

Do
LD_PRELOAD=./libreplay.so realplay in the directory where libreplay is.

realplay will create /tmp/realplayer_stream_XX_speed_YY_channels_ZZ_format_AA.raw for each stream you play.

XX will be replaced by the stream number (from 0 to whatever the number of streams you download).

YY will be the speed of the stream (44100 if the stream is at 44100Hz, for instance).

ZZ will be the number of channels of the stream (1 for mono, 2 for stereo).

AA will be the size of each sample of the stream (I only saw 16 for it, meaning: 16 bits, signed, little endian).

Some streams may be empty, because realplay sometimes opens and closes the soundcard whitout outputting any sound.

The output is a raw file, use sox or you favorite conversion program to transform it into a format you like more.

For instance, using sox, you would do

sox -t raw -s -w -c 2 -r 44100 realplayer_stream_6_speed_44100_channels_1_format_16.raw out.wav copy

-t raw for saying its a raw file,
-s -w for saying its 16b signed,
-c 2 for saying there are 2 channels,
-r 44100 for saying its a 44100Hz stream.

It has been tested against realplayer 8.

By setting the environment variable LIBREPLAY_AUDIO, you can save live streams. Some streams create problems when they are saved faster than they are played; the server will send again some audio data, and the result is bad. With this option, the stream is played and saved at the same time. If you have problems with your saved streams, try this option.

You may use the scripts realplay.dump and realplay.dump_live, which include all the necessary to let realplay be used with libreplay.
realplay.dump will only save the stream.
realplay.dump_live will save it and play it.
You may need to edit these scripts, to adapt the paths, for them to fit your system. These scripts are only here to help you; if they dont work, you still will need to read the documentation (this file) and understand it.

Gregory did a little perl utility to, maybe, facilitate the usage of this little tool. realexport.tar.gz

realexport.sh something.rm is the way to use it, according to Gregory. (It may work, it may fail, not tested.) You will need sox and lame available on your system.

Real Rekord is a KDE programme which helps you record and capture audio streams from Real Player using GNU/Linux.
It lets you record realaudio/realplayer streams by using vsound 0.5 (sits between program and /dev/dsp) and sox (converts audio file formats).
This version has an updated build for KDE 3.2 (probably works with KDE 3.1).
Enhancements:
- Added missing parts

KMediagrab is a media grabber and encoder built on top of mplayer/mencoder. It can grab and encode a DVD at the same time (e.g., creating a divx or a videocd file for instance), record a movie or your favourite TV program from your TV-card, or translate a video file from one format to another (e.g., create a realplayer file from a .wmv one).
Enhancements:
- Added subtitles support
- fixed tv frame sizes
- moved from divx4 to xvid

tcpflow is a program that captures data transmitted as part of TCP connections, and stores the data in a way that is convenient for protocol analysis or debugging.

A program like tcpdump shows a summary of packets seen on the wire, but usually doesnt store the data thats actually being transmitted. In contrast, tcpflow reconstructs the actual data streams and stores each flow in a separate file for later analysis.

tcpflow understands sequence numbers and will correctly reconstruct data streams regardless of retransmissions or out-of-order delivery. However, it currently does not understand IP fragments; flows containing IP fragments will not be recorded properly.

tcpflow is based on the LBL Packet Capture Library (available from LBL) and therefore supports the same rich filtering expressions that programs like tcpdump support.

tcpflow stores all captured data in files that have names of the form

128.129.130.131.02345-010.011.012.013.45103

where the contents of the above file would be data transmitted from host 128.129.131.131 port 2345, to host 10.11.12.13 port 45103.

I originally wrote this program to capture the data being sent by various programs that use undocumented network protocols in an attempt to reverse engineer them. RealPlayer (and most other streaming media players), ICQ, and AOL IM are good examples of this type of application. It should be compiled under most popular versions of UNIX; see the INSTALL file for details.

In tinkering with it, I later also found tcpflow to be useful for checking to see what cookies my browser was sending to various sites, looking at the MIME headers of HTTP requests people are sending to my web server, and verifying that various connections to my machine that were supposed to be encrypted actually were encrypted.

SAM Linux Desktop is a live and installation CD based on Mandriva Linux, is an easy-to-use, fast and clean XFce Linux desktop for home users.
SAM Linux Desktop is enhanced by several popular non-free applications, such Macromedia Flash plugin, Java and RealPlayer.
Enhancements:
- SAM 2007.1-test1 is available for testing. The most important changes: OpenOffice.org was dropped, here is the reason: SAM now comes with basic support for more than 50 languages, proprietary ATI and NVIDIA drivers have been added to the live CD with a nice GUI to install them, under the hood it is running a development version of kernel 2.6.20.11. All packages have been updated to their newest versions available in the PCLinuxOS repositories, some new ones have been added (PDFedit, Planner, Searchmonkey, Ntfs-config, VirtualBox...) and a fresh theme was created.

Myah is an Operating System based on the Linux kernel. Myah is a "Live CD", so no installation is required. Myah Linux Operating System runs right off the CD, putting whatever system files it needs into RAM only.
You simply start up your PC with the Myah CD. Once youre done with Myah, simply restart your PC. The CD will eject automatically and all will be exactly as it was before.
Our goal is to bring you the best free Operating System and to inform PC owners they dont have to spend their money on Windows or OS X. There is something better, and its free. Whenever we improve Myah or Linux in general those updates will be free.
There are many Linux-based Live CDs our there. So weve made sure Myah is different by including the programs youre going to use on a daily basis. To Windows users the unfamiliar Linux program names can be confusing. So weve changed the menus to make sense. For instance Kopete, a Linux instant messenger service, is simply called Messenger.
Programs have been added to the task bar for quick and easy access. Also: the user isnt hassled for any information during startup. Myah boots up completely on its own. It starts in the main administrative account called Root.
The user has full rights. And since Myah runs right off the CD you cant break it.This whole website is committed to bringing people the best of Linux and its software, so we advertise many other Linux Operating Systems. As a plus for people who cant leave Windows (tm), we offer the Live CD. And its all free for everyone to use. So please: dont waste your money.
Main features:
- Its just as easy as putting the Myah CD in your computer and rebooting. Everything is automatic, detecting your hardware, even your internet connection. All this is done without making any permenet changes to your computer. At anytime just reboot the computer, and your normal system is back.
- Myah uses the KDE destop, that comes with a great set of utilities. Control Center you have the power to tune the system as you like. K3b is Myahs CD burning programs. K3b is powerful easy to use program.
- Myah lets you breeze though the Internet with Firefox. And if you have ever wanted to try creating you own Websites NVU is included. NVU makes it possible to create professional looking Webpages, without knowing html. Just point and click.
- If office software is a must, Open Office has every thing you need. While working is nice to have something to listed to. Realplayer can handle radio stations form Shoutcast, or even let you check out there latest videos online.
- Myahs messanger Kopete will let you stay connected to with anyone, no matter what service they might use. And for all those photos Gimp is a complete solution. Myah comes Jam packed with many other programs, all in a simple and easy to use menu. Just click the penguin and begin.
Enhancements:
- Myah OS 3 Tech Demo 2 is now available. This is still a development release but it should be fairly stable and have a well rounded selection of applications. It should mirror what the Xfce version of 3.0 will look like. There are still three objectives that need to be met before 3.0 stable: firstly, to get the system well tested to weed out any bugs or setting changes, secondly, to work on Myahs package management system, and finally, there is still no actual installer. Both binary packages and source packages will be made available and since the bulk of the system has been completed, development should come much faster from now on.

x10mp3 is a plug-in for xmms and WinAmp. x10mp3 will allow you to control XMMS/WinAmp using an X10 remote. It is intended to be used as a replacement for the Boom 2000 Software. See below for requirements and compatibility with the various X10 remotes.

The main platform for x10mp3 is Linux. Some of the information on this site is only relevant to Linux versions.

The Boom2000 software is a seperate application, developed by X10, that sends messages to assorted programs like WinAmp and RealPlayer. There are two things wrong with that: 1. you must start a seperate application everytime you launch your Mp3 player, and 2. you must use Windows (blech!)

Since x10mp3 is a plug-in, it is started automatically everytime you run XMMS/WinAmp. x10mp3 has additional features that Boom2000 does not, like balance control, fast-forward/rewind, pause, etc. Also, Boom2000 doesnt run on Linux - x10mp3 does.