Play RealMedia in Amarok
Update: The following tip might no longer work, so be responsible.
Having some realmedia files in my music library, I've been wishing for a way to be able to play them within my current music manager Amarok.
The necessary codecs have been installed, yet it produces an error message everytime I double-click on one of those files.
The solution is in the file ~/.xine/catalog.cache as follows:
Having some realmedia files in my music library, I've been wishing for a way to be able to play them within my current music manager Amarok.The necessary codecs have been installed, yet it produces an error message everytime I double-click on one of those files.
The solution is in the file ~/.xine/catalog.cache as follows:
- cp ~/.xine/catalog.cache ~/.xine/catalog.cache.backup
- kedit ~/.xine/catalog.cache
- Search (Ctrl+f) for "realadec"
- Change "decoder_priority=" from whatever number it is (it was 7 for me, might be 5 for you) to make it "decoder_priority=10"
- Save it.
- Go play some .rm files!
Comments
worked like a charm :)
Most of the time, I cannot feel the difference between playing realaudio with Amarok (as described above) and playing them with RealPlayer for GNU/Linux.
However, there are few files that show poor quality if played with Amarok, and some files do not play at all.