[ILUG] mplayer alternative

[Brendan Halpin]

> On 9/19/05, Frank Duignan <frank.duignan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've been looking for a low dependency (i.e unlike mplayer) console
> > based media player that will allow me listen to the likes of lyric fm 

<philb at vodafone.ie> writes:

> I use realplayer 10 for linux with no problems (works for RTE and BBC audio 
> and video streams). AFAIK you should be able to use the fully open source 
> Helix player on which the RealPlayer product is based. I don't actually 
> know how the two differ but you can download both at https://player.helixcommunity.org/.

For Frank's requirements, I thought of trplayer, which is a
commandline program that uses realplayer's libraries. However, I
recently tried to install it under Ubuntu Hoary, and realplayer 10,
but it failed to find the right libraries. It worked fine with
earlier versions of realplayer, but it doesn't seem to be 
currently under development. 

Brendan
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