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Re: [LUG] Switching to Debian

 

On Feb 04, 2007, Benjamin A'Lee was like:

> debian-multimedia.org has things like mythtv in, and mplayer (but
> mplayer's in Debian now anyway). 

I have been using debian testing for a while now and it's ok except
that I can't Listen Again to work. This is not down to testing,
though, it's because I have an AMD64 and the BBC's RealPlayer10 won't
go. I put debian-multimedia in the sources.list and tried aptitude
install realplayer and got the reply 'not an installation candidate'
-- though the debian-multimedia site says it is there. I installed
mplayer ok, which I thought came from debian-miltimedia but probably
came from main. I can play a BBC programme with it but the quality is
poor and the method awkward -- you have to say 'use stand-alone
realplayer', then download the URL of the .ram file, then run mplayer
rtsp: etc. What do you suggest?  Do I try to set up a 32-bit chroot
environment (looks hairy) and get RealPlayer10 or install
mplayer-plugin (ditto)? I'd prefer to have realplayer if possible
since all I want is to play streaming audio but why does it fail to
install? Is there someone on the list who is listening again with an
AMD64?

Tony Sumner

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