Bug 240417 – media-video/realplayer: does not play dnet (old real-codec) files without win32codecs and symlinks to them

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Matthias Schwarzott 2008-10-07 18:57:46 UTC]

So to play some old real files encoded with dnet codec (like amazon uses them still), one needs to emerge win32codecs and do some symlinks by hand.


Code from http://de.gentoo-wiki.com/RealPlayer_10_Gold:
emerge -av win32codecs
cd /opt/RealPlayer/codecs/
ln -s /usr/lib/real/ddnt.so.6.0 ddnt.so.6.0
ln -s /usr/lib/real/dnet.so.6.0 dnet.so.6.0
ln -s ddnt.so.6.0 ddnt.so
ln -s dnet.so.6.0 dnet.so

For verification:
This link to amazon.de is only playable with realplayer-11.0.0.4028-r1 if adding the symlinks.
http://www.amazon.de/gp/music/clipserve/B0000U1NHO001003/1/ref=mu_sam_ra001_003

[Comment 1 Steve Dibb (RETIRED) 2008-10-29 17:33:13 UTC]

Fixed in CVS

[Comment 2 Martin Jansa 2008-10-30 09:23:41 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Fixed in CVS

Is it possible to install this on amd64 with multilib?

real USE flag is masked, so now realplayer/realcodecs cannot be installed on amd64?

I've tried
default-linux/amd64/package.use.mask:media-libs/win32codecs -real
but it didn't help

[Comment 3 Martin Jansa 2008-10-30 09:35:14 UTC]

> I've tried
> default-linux/amd64/package.use.mask:media-libs/win32codecs -real
> but it didn't help

My fault.. (wrong profile)

it should be in arch/amd64/package.use.mask (for 2008.0)
but I don't know if its ok, or new security issue

[Comment 4 Ben de Groot (RETIRED) 2008-10-30 10:11:09 UTC]

The right location to unmask is /etc/portage/profile/package.use.mask as the profiles in the portage tree will just get overwritten on the next sync. 

Read http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-713051.html for more information.