fwd: RealPlayer 5.0/Linux (from RedHat-Announce)

Wed Nov 5 06:50:13 UTC 1997

Pertinent to a conversation played out here just before NANOG.

-----Forwarded message from Steven Krikstone <triden at scooby.cheney.net>-----

From: Steven Krikstone <triden at scooby.cheney.net>
To: redhat-announce-list at redhat.com
Subject: RealPlayer 5.0 Beta
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.971104170549.17532A-100000 at scooby.cheney.net>

   Just to let everyone know, RealAudio has released RealPlayer 5.0 Beta 1
for Linux.  I've been using it for a few days and haven't come across any
glaring bugs.  The major difference between 3.0 and 5.0 is that streaming
video can be displayed.  Even more important than that, you don't have to
start netscape with a private colormap; a much needed addition.

  The gzip'ed tar file is easy to install, and you need only to complete a
few steps to get it working on RH. (I'd make a .rpm, but I think the
license I read forbids it, someone let me know if I'm wrong) NOTE: Read
the README.FIRST that is contained in the tarball. It contains important
steps needed to correctly setup RealPlayer. 

The program can be found at:

http://www.real.com/products/player/download_player.html

---
Steven Krikstone
Cheney Communications
-----End of forwarded message-----

HTH.

Cheers,
-- jra
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