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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 them…) 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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Tags: atm, blog, freebsd community, logs, people, ports, realplayer, running —
October 19th, 2006 at 21:57
That’s great news! Good luck with the rest of the work.
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October 19th, 2006 at 22:02
Nice
Are we talking Open Source — or native, binary distribution of Real Player for FreeBSD?
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October 19th, 2006 at 22:15
Native RealPlayer for FreeBSD
Alexander Leidinger and another FreeBSD commiter are working on a nativ RealPlayer for FreeBSD.
Alexander mentioned in his blog article:
.… The FreeBSD build machine is setup and some build logs are already generated. Some minor problems where ide
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October 19th, 2006 at 23:47
Cool! Please go for it, a lot of FreeBSD-users are eager to see your success!
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October 20th, 2006 at 01:25
Indeed nice news
Good luck! 
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October 20th, 2006 at 01:29
[…] Alexander Leidinger, Committer bei FreeBSD, brachte heute die frohe Kunde — übrigens ist er einer derjenigen, die RealNetworks bei ihrem Vorhaben unterstützen werden […]
October 20th, 2006 at 10:51
[…] Alexander Leidinger, Committer beim FreeBSD Project, hat heute in seinem Blog die frohe Kunde verlauten lassen, dass an einem nativen RealPlayer für FreeBSD gearbeitet wird. Er und ein weiterer Committer werden RealNetworks dabei helfen den RealPlayer auf FreeBSD zu portieren. Unter FreeBSD gibt es bisher nur den Linux-Realplayer, um diesen zu nutzen muss aber die Linux Emulation installiert sein und laufen. Mit einem eigenen nativen RealPlayer würde dies der Vergangenheit angehören. […]
October 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.
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October 21st, 2006 at 16:53
How can You talk about the “benefit to Open Source” if it will be binary?!
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October 21st, 2006 at 17:29
HelixPlayer is the Open Source pendant to RealPlayer without certain codecs (compare OpenOffice/StarOffice)
… is rather logical, isn’t it?
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October 26th, 2006 at 04:52
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.
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October 26th, 2006 at 05:14
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).
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October 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.
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November 12th, 2006 at 07:56
stop bitching and start coding you lazy whiner
gl with the real player peeps
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