Not able to play .rm or .rmvb files at all in openSUSE 11.0

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I’m using openSUSE 11.0 with KDE 3.5

I installed all the codecs required for mplayer(from the Packman repository and all-codecs-package from mplayer homepage). but still, i’m not able to play .rm, .rmvb and .amr files with mplayer.

The command line output when I tried to play a .rm file is as follows. I get the audio, but no video.

rahul@linux-ac4a:~> mplayer ‘/stuff2/grahanam.rm’
MPlayer dev-SVN-r27637-4.3-openSUSE Linux 11.0 (x86_64)-Packman (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Core™2 Duo CPU T5270 @ 1.40GHz (Family: 6, Model: 15, Stepping: 13)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
Can’t open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory
Can’t init input joystick
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing /stuff2/grahanam.rm.
REAL file format detected.
Stream description: audio/x-pn-multirate-realaudio logical stream
Stream mimetype: audio/x-pn-realaudio
[real] Audio stream found, -aid 0
Stream description: video/x-pn-multirate-realvideo logical stream
Stream mimetype: video/x-pn-realvideo
[real] Video stream found, -vid 1
VIDEO: [RV40] 320x240 24bpp 25.000 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
name: teluguone.com
author: teluguone.com
copyright: teluguone.com(C) 2006

Opening video decoder: [realvid] RealVideo decoder
Error: /usr/lib64/RealPlayer10/codecs/drvc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec drvc.so.
Read the RealVideo section of the DOCS!
VDecoder init failed :frowning:
Opening video decoder: [realvid] RealVideo decoder
ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec drvc.dll.
Read the RealVideo section of the DOCS!
VDecoder init failed :frowning:
Opening video decoder: [realvid] RealVideo decoder
Error: /usr/lib64/RealPlayer10/codecs/drv4.so.6.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec drv4.so.6.0.
Read the RealVideo section of the DOCS!
VDecoder init failed :frowning:
Opening video decoder: [realvid] RealVideo decoder
ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec drv43260.dll.
Read the RealVideo section of the DOCS!
VDecoder init failed :frowning:
Opening video decoder: [realvid] RealVideo decoder
Error: /usr/lib64/RealPlayer10/codecs/drvc.bundle/Contents/MacOS/drvc: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec drvc.bundle/Contents/MacOS/drvc.
Read the RealVideo section of the DOCS!
VDecoder init failed
Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x30345652.
Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!

==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 64.1 kbit/4.54% (ratio: 8010->176400)
Selected audio codec: [ffcook] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg COOK audio decoder)

[AO OSS] audio_setup: Can’t open audio device /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
===== PAUSE =====
A: 4.3 (04.2) of 5533.0 ( 1:32:13.0) 2.2%

amr plays with realplayer, but with very bad quality(the sound gets constantly interrupted every 2-3 seconds).

And realplayer is being pathetic, it doesn’t play anything except those .amr and .mp3 files. When I try to play avi or non-real files, it gives me the message

The following components are required:
avi

And when I try to play .rm or .rmvb files, it just crashes. The command line output for realplayer for a .rm file is as follows.

rahul@linux-ac4a:~> realplay ‘/stuff2/grahanam.rm’
The program ‘realplay.bin’ received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was ‘BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)’.
(Details: serial 32 error_code 8 request_code 140 minor_code 13)
(Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

Thanks in advance,
Rahul

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Un-install RealPlayer if it’s the one from the repo

Download the .rpm
http://www.real.com/realcom/R?href=http://forms.real.com/real/player/download.html?f=unix/RealPlayer11GOLD.rpm

Open a terminal in the directory you saved it and go su, then do:

rpm -ihv RealPlayer11GOLD.rpm

N.B. You will find if you just type the R of the package name above and then hit TAB it should auto complete.

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I got this error

***linux-ac4a:/stuff2/opensuseall/Documents # rpm -ihv RealPlayer11GOLD.rpm
Preparing… ########################################### [100%]
1:RealPlayer ########################################### [100%]
*** NSPlugin Viewer *** ERROR: /usr/lib64/browser-plugins/opensc-signer.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64

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i used to had the same problem, but i’m using 32
bit version

so what i did was: go to /usr/lib, there should be a folder called codecs, copy this folder, then go to /usr/lib64 and look for a folder called RealPlayer10, in case you dont have it, create it… then inside this folder paste the codecs folder and try to open a rmvb, it should play now.

i know thats a silly solution, but it worked for me…

hope this can help you :wink: **