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I wanted to see if puppy supports playing real audio files since it would qualify for me as one of those applications needed for daily use.
I went to the RealAudio test site: service.real.com/realplayer/test/

depending of which realAudio version I attempt to play, I get an error that I'm missing one of the following libraries:
drv4.so.6.0
sipr.so.6.0
drv3.so.6.0

so it looks like no support for RealAudio is provided

GuestToo · Puppy Master Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 4078

they all (video and audio) play ok on my machine
but i have mplayer codecs installed
http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/codecs.html

BarryK · Posted: Sat 18 Jun 2005, 06:08 Post subject:

Thanks for that url!

I'm running a pristine Puppy 1.0.3, the bottom half of that page has four RealAudio samples. I'm on dialup so I chose the slowest one, the last two work, the first two are missing "sipr.so.6.0".

RealVideo needed either sipr.so.6.0 and drv3.so.6.0, or drv4.so.6.0.

...how big are these? maybe I could consider putting them in live-CD?
at least the sipr.so.6.0.

GuestToo · Puppy Master Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 4078

sipr.so.6.0 61.4k
drv3.so.6.0 296.2k
drv4.so.6.0 330.8k

papaschtroumpf · Joined: 17 Jun 2005 Posts: 250

saw your post in the news regarding making an extra codec package available . that's a great idea.
To me it's a 11M well spent because I want to be able play all kinds of media (in fact I want to be bale to play all kind of video in addition to audio).

I may be better off biting the bullet and installing MPlayer but I need to play with both before I decide.