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Play Real Media Files

Asked by Ashish Kumar Shah

hello everyone i am a new ubuntu user. I want to play RMVB videos on Ubuntu 8.10 AMD64. On a windows computer i would have used realplayer to play them. When i tried to get a real player it gave me a lot of trouble and no luck so far.

Can any one here help me out with this?
Do i have any alternate player which can do that? (I tried MPlayer it didnt work)?
How do i install real player on ubuntu 8.10 Amd 64?
Is it difficult to find software for AMD 64? ( Atleast i felt that :))?

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Ashish Kumar Shah (ashish-kumar-shah) said : 		#1

I tried the helix nightly build site, it had a tar.gz2 i downloaded it. But being new i couldnt figure out.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

sudo apt-get install realplayer

its part of universe and multiverse repositories, you may need to add these in synaptic

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Luky Winarto (luckyborneo) said : 		#3

Hi Ashish Kumar Shah,

Try to read this article from thir URL:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RealPlayerInstallationMethods

Hopefully that will solve your problems. Cheers...

-Luky-

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Ashish Kumar Shah (ashish-kumar-shah) said : 		#4

Thanks Luky

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Ashish Kumar Shah (ashish-kumar-shah) said : 		#5

I was able to install but, after installing it when i try to open a file real simply closes. Its existence is of no use to me. How do i deal with this bug?

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Luky Winarto (luckyborneo) said : 		#6

Did you using desktop effect (compiz) when try to play the file?
Try to disable your desktop effect then re-open that file. How about that?

Cheers...
-Luky-

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