Re: realaudio - clarifying things

["T. V. Raman" <ramantv@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The G2 player is available for Linux as an alpha version 
--wish you luck in tracking it down on their goofy site 

when using the outloud speech server emacspeak uses midi for
the auditory icons --provided 
you install the stdiosynth package.


ESD is not far enough along for using with something like a
TTS engine yet.
>>>>> "Tim" == Tim Cross <tcross@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

    Tim> Can anyone tell me if there is a G2 player for
    Tim> linux? when I checked the real.com web site, they
    Tim> only list G2 downloads for winblows or mac. If
    Tim> there is one for linux, where can I get it?

    Tim> Also, I am going to try out the outloud server and
    Tim> was wondering what sort of impact it has with
    Tim> respect to competing for access to the soudcard. Do
    Tim> you also need to set up some sort of sound server
    Tim> (like enlightenments esd sound server) to use
    Tim> things like audio icons and outload to avoid
    Tim> resource conflicts etc.

    Tim> Tim

    Tim> T. V. Raman writes:
    >> Bil (Barry)/ Bill (perr)--
    >> 
    >> 1)Bill (Bary) the rtsp:// urls do work with G2
    >> player.
    >> 
    >> 2) Bill (Perry) --agreed --the g2 player is a crappy
    >> piece-- however the thing does appear to play the BBC
    >> happily over a 56K modem line --I'm surprized it's
    >> dropping packets and buffering on your machine over
    >> an ISDN line.
    >> 
    >> I do look forward to something built off the toolkit
    >> you mentioned -- if you hack something I might be
    >> able to contribute some cycles to it as well.
    >> 
    >> -- 
    >> Best Regards, --raman
    >> 
    >> 
    >> Email: raman@xxxxxxxxxxx WWW:
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    >> -- 
    >> Best Regards, --raman
    >> 
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Best Regards,
--raman

      
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