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Native RealPlayer for FreeBSD

Published October 19th, 2006 in FreeBSD, userland

Some days ago I got approval from Real, I’m allowed to blog about the native FreeBSD RealPlayer. Now I get time to blog about it.

Ok, there’s not much to say about it so far. Some people in the FreeBSD community (among them 2 committers, guess who is one of them̷ ;) are helping Real to get it up and running on FreeBSD. The FreeBSD build machine is setup and some build logs are already generated. Some minor problems where identified (missing software which can be installed out of the ports, some minor issues in the build system and some other easy to fix stuff I don’t remember ATM) in a first round of log-review.

This reminds me that I should have a look if there are some new logs. Maybe I get time at the weekend. Let’s hope I don’t forget about it… ;-)

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  1. 1 Ceri Davies Oct 19th, 2006 at 21:57

    That’s great news! Good luck with the rest of the work.

  2. 2 Henrik Brix Andersen Oct 19th, 2006 at 22:02

    Nice :)

    Are we talking Open Source – or native, binary distribution of Real Player for FreeBSD?

  3. 3 Daniel Seuffert Oct 19th, 2006 at 23:47

    Cool! Please go for it, a lot of FreeBSD-users are eager to see your success! :)

  4. 4 Oliver Oct 20th, 2006 at 1:25

    Indeed nice news :D Good luck! :)

  5. 5 netchild Oct 20th, 2006 at 19:54

    The binary version (RealPlayer) is based upon the Open Source version (helixplayer). So any fix to RealPlayer (our goal is to get it running on FreeBSD) will be beneficial to the Open Source version too. So in some sense you will get both.

  6. 6 alius Oct 21st, 2006 at 16:53

    How can You talk about the “benefit to Open Source” if it will be binary?!

  7. 7 Oliver Oct 21st, 2006 at 17:29

    HelixPlayer is the Open Source pendant to RealPlayer without certain codecs (compare OpenOffice/StarOffice)

    So any fix to RealPlayer (our goal is to get it running on FreeBSD) will be beneficial to the Open Source version too

    ... is rather logical, isn’t it?

  8. 8 Calm down Oct 26th, 2006 at 4:52

    It’s good news, but i’m not that happy with Real. They use Gtk and this won’t integrate well with KDE distros such as PC-BSD and DesktopBSD.

    At least Skype and Opera use Qt. I won’t use RealOne player for this reason.

  9. 9 Daniel Seuffert Oct 26th, 2006 at 5:14

    Sorry, you are wrong, there’s absolutely no problem including Realplayer in PC-BSD or DesktopBSD, they are already included (as well as other Gtk-based apps).

  10. 10 Calm down Oct 26th, 2006 at 14:28

    No I’m not wrong. I use Firefox and Acrobat Reader with KDE on FreeBSD, and they don’t integrate well at all even with gtk-qt-engine. These are the only 2 Gtk applications that I use. I avoid them.

    It’s like using Skype (Qt) in Ubuntu (Gtk). It looks ugly.

  11. 11 knowitall Nov 12th, 2006 at 7:56

    stop bitching and start coding you lazy whiner :)

    gl with the real player peeps :D

  1. 1 BSDUnix Trackback on Oct 19th, 2006 at 22:15
  2. 2 Realplayer native für FreeBSD auf F!XMBR Pingback on Oct 20th, 2006 at 1:29
  3. 3 grUNIX » Blog Archiv » RealPlayer bald für FreBSD Pingback on Oct 20th, 2006 at 10:51
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