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Save the BBC from Windows DRM! (Linux Journal)

Save the BBC from Windows DRM! (Linux Journal)

Posted Feb 19, 2007 16:55 UTC (Mon) by odie (guest, #738)
In reply to: Save the BBC from Windows DRM! (Linux Journal) by debacle
Parent article: Save the BBC from Windows DRM! (Linux Journal)

Any reasonably recent free player should be able to play Real media files, as most of them use ffmpeg. Perhaps not all of them handle the Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP), but I know MPlayer does.


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Save the BBC from Windows DRM! (Linux Journal)

Posted Feb 19, 2007 20:51 UTC (Mon) by debacle (subscriber, #7114) [Link]

I tried to play some REAL files from bbc.co.uk using mplayer, but only some of them work. In one case it could not resolve a network address, in another case it seemed to want a '.dll' file - on a GNU/Linux system! This one works, however: mplayer rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/bbc7/1300_mon.ra

Thanks for the hint and thanks to the BBC for providing audio that is accessible using free software!

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