Real Player 10 on OpenSolaris: More than meets the eye
26 Feb '06 - 02:38 by benrI know, when you think of exciting video codecs, Real Player is just right up there at the top of your list. But, believe it or not, the Real Player codecs really have come a long long way, the only shame is that so few people are using the latest codec. Having Real Player in Solaris/X86 following Build 31 is a great advantage, not the least of which is that you can now actually watch Sun released videos on Solaris (which is a sorta nice thing). But there is more to it than that. If you haven't noticed, Real Player 10 included supports the Xiph Ogg codecs including OggVorbis and OggTheora!.
This is majorly frickin' kool. I'm a huge believer in Xiph. You might recall that I wrote Eplayer, an OggVorbis audio player based on the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries. Xiph's codecs are beautiful peices of art; easy to use and very flexable. Using Xiph's no defunct libao I had a solid cross-platform foundation for audio handling, and libogg and libvorbis are so easy to use that I was spending my time improving my user interface, not sound. The entire suite of codecs are first class in my opion. If you don't already know, Ogg is itself only a container, similar to Quicktime MOV. Various codecs, such as Vorbis and Theora utilize that standard container format simplifying the way you interact with the data. Xiph's suite of codecs include:
- Vorbis: Audio
- FLAC: Losses Audio
- Speex: Speech optimized Audio (for use with VoIP, etc)
- Theora: Video
Real Player 10 includes support for Vorbis and Theora. That means that its time for me to start using Ogg Theora widely again. I just love the codec and love having a solid alternative.
If you have Real Player 10 (Solaris Express: Community Release B33) and want to try out some Theora for yourself, here is a OggTheora highly compressed version of the first Silicon Valley OpenSolaris Users Group meeting.
If your interested in Real Player, you can help work on it yourself by visiting the Helix Community.
Hm, it can’t even play xvid. :( What packages are needed for this? And what’s up with mp4/aac?
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