weidner wrote:
> Hi,

> does anyone know abaout a RealPlayer 8.x available for Debian/Alpha?
> On real.com's Download Site there's only a 7.x for Debian/Alpha but a
> 8.x for RedHat/Alpha. Unfortunately the RedHat "Installer" quits with a
> Segmentation Fault under Debian (why? is AlphaLinux != AlphaLinux ???).
> Are there any OpenSource alternatives for RealPlayer?

Try MPlayer, www.mplayerhq.hu

Download source and codecs for RP8/Alpha, works fine.

Juhana Paavola writes:

>> does anyone know abaout a RealPlayer 8.x available for Debian/Alpha?
>> On real.com's Download Site there's only a 7.x for Debian/Alpha but a
>> 8.x for RedHat/Alpha. Unfortunately the RedHat "Installer" quits with a
>> Segmentation Fault under Debian (why? is AlphaLinux != AlphaLinux ???).
>> Are there any OpenSource alternatives for RealPlayer?
>
> Try MPlayer, www.mplayerhq.hu
>
> Download source and codecs for RP8/Alpha, works fine.

Is it working now? Last I tried it on an Alpha I got an instantaneous
segmentation fault caused by bad programming style. I started fixing
the bugs, but found out it was easier to write a new player from
scratch.

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Måns Rullgård
mru@kth.se

Måns Rullgård wrote:

> Is it working now? Last I tried it on an Alpha I got an instantaneous
> segmentation fault caused by bad programming style. I started fixing
> the bugs, but found out it was easier to write a new player from
> scratch.

I tested it with few streams and it played them.
Didn't get segfaults or anything problem.

And I didn't tried it with gcc 2.95.x, only gcc3.3.1.
Debian Unstable.

Juhana Paavola writes:

> Måns Rullgård wrote:
>
>> Is it working now? Last I tried it on an Alpha I got an instantaneous
>> segmentation fault caused by bad programming style. I started fixing
>> the bugs, but found out it was easier to write a new player from
>> scratch.
>
> I tested it with few streams and it played them.
> Didn't get segfaults or anything problem.
>
> And I didn't tried it with gcc 2.95.x, only gcc3.3.1.

The compiler version isn't important. I remember seeing several cases
of pointer to int casts and back. Several of these were in the
realvideo code. Another one caused segfault if I tried to change the
volume.

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Måns Rullgård
mru@kth.se