Thanks for reporting these issues.  The first two you mentioned we're
working on and should be fixed soon.  The other problem is because the
"DNET" codec that Amazon uses is really old and currently has some
restrictions preventing us from distributing it.  We hope to have a
solution before too long, but there's nothing on the immediate horizon.


On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 07:12, blindman jones wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> First, let me apologize if this is not the correct list to post on...
> I was overwhelemed by the number of lists available and then had
> trouble finding any with real people posting to them...
> 
> I downloaded the RealPlayer-0.4.0.186-2040615.i586.rpm and installed
> it on my laptop running the current Fedora Core 2. After finding that
> the binary was not installed in my PATH, i linked
> /usr/local/RealPlayer/realplay to /usr/local/bin/realplay. Then, in
> the /usr/local/RealPlayer/realplay file i changed the line
> 
>                     HELIX_LIBS="/usr/local/HelixPlayer" ; export HELIX_LIBS
> to
> 
>                     HELIX_LIBS="/usr/local/RealPlayer" ; export HELIX_LIBS
> 
> that allowed the player to start... no problem so far...
> 
> now, the issue I am asking about... I have always gone to Amazon for
> some reason to test new Real Players... so, browsed over to amzon.com,
> opened a cd page with real audio links and got an error when trying to
> play the samples... "The content you are trying to play uses an audio
> codec that is obsolete and no longer supported. Please contact the
> content provider about using a supported codec."
> 
> Amazon simply responded with a canned answer, of course, about using a
> supported player blah blah blah...
> 
> Real media encoded with the free player -
> http://www.z7q2.com/scary/trio.ram - version 2 i believe plays fine...
> so far, it is only the amazon content.
> 
> Is there a way to add support to RP10 to play this media? Am I missing
> something here??
> 
> thanx for your help,
-- 
Nicholas Hart
nhart at real.com
Technical Lead, Helix Player
https://player.helixcommunity.org
http://www.real.com