[vdr] Re: Video over internet

[Christian Berger <einStein@donau.de>]

Dave Chapman schrieb:
> 
> On Wednesday 29 May 2002 19:53, Gernot A. Weber wrote:
> > > Is it possible to record a .ra or .rm-File from the Internet and feed it
> > > into the system?
> >
> > As far as I know MPlayer is capable to play .rm-Files...
> 
> No it can't.  It can possibly play very early versions of rm, but nothing
> that is in use today.
> 
> Ironically, Microsoft's audio/video formats have much better support under
> Linux (avifile, mplayer etc) than Real files, which can't be converted to any
> other format.
> 
> Dave.


Well one problem is, Real stipped all the debugging symbols from it's
codecs, so I doubt it's that easy to use them. Anyhow mplayer fully
supports the file-format, just not all codecs.

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