Have you tried the package realplay from the AUR yet ? http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=1590 (For it seems this is a RealAudio file). Best regards, Nelson. -------- Original-Nachricht --------

Datum: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 13:43:27 +0530 Von: Jayesh Badwaik <jayesh.badwaik90@gmail.com> An: arch-general@archlinux.org Betreff: *** GMX Spamverdacht *** [arch-general] Advice on opening the ".rm" files in ArchLinux

Hi,

I have just downloaded the following file [0]. It is an .rm file but I am not able to open it in either VLC or Mplayer. I have posted -the error messages below.

Thanks in advance.

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[0] ftp://ftp.aduni.org/videos/08_lect_01.rm

P.S. As a background, the file is the first of the lecture of Theory of Computation. http://aduni.org/courses/theory/index.php?view=cw

P.P.S. ERROR MESSAGES

ERROR MESSAGE IN VLC: $ vlc 08_lect_01.rm VLC media player 2.0.1 Twoflower (revision 2.0.1-0-gf432547) [0x1b06138] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface. [rm @ 0x7efff8c1fe00] Unsupported stream type 4d4c5449 [rm @ 0x7efff8c1fe00] Unsupported stream type 4d4c5449 [rm @ 0x7efff8c1fe00] Unsupported stream type 000001f5 [rm @ 0x7efff8c1fe00] Unsupported stream type 00000424 [rm @ 0x7efff8c1fe00] Unsupported stream type 00000644 [rm @ 0x7efff80035e0] Unsupported stream type 4d4c5449 [rm @ 0x7efff80035e0] Unsupported stream type 4d4c5449 [rm @ 0x7efff80035e0] Unsupported stream type 000001f5 [rm @ 0x7efff80035e0] Unsupported stream type 00000424 [rm @ 0x7efff80035e0] Unsupported stream type 00000644

ERROR MESSAGE IN MPLAYER: $ mplayer 08_lect_01.rm MPlayer SVN-r34799-4.6.3 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team 183 audio & 398 video codecs 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 08_lect_01.rm. libavformat version 54.2.100 (internal) REAL file format detected. Stream description: audio/x-pn-multirate-realaudio logical stream Stream mimetype: audio/x-pn-realaudio-recording Stream description: video/x-pn-multirate-realvideo logical stream Stream mimetype: video/x-pn-realvideo-recording Stream mimetype: logical-fileinfo Stream mimetype: logical-fileinfo Stream mimetype: logical-fileinfo No stream found. Exiting... (End of file)