RealPlayer binary support masked

beandog · Last edited by beandog on Fri Aug 27, 2010 6:30 pm; edited 2 times in total

Hi guys,

Okay, so the "real" use flag has been package.use.mask'd on win32codecs, amarok and mplayer. Also, amd64codecs and realcodecs has been package masked.

The reason for this is because the RealPlayer codecs have constantly had security issues, and the RealPlayer package has always been a hassle to maintain. Neither one is going away -- they are just going to stay as unstable [Edit: I guess one is -- realplayer removed]. Chances are, you don't need them anyway. The codecs are hardly used anymore, and most people will be fine without them.

Update: media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p28058-r1 now has native support for RV40 codecs. media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p28288 also adds native playback support for RV30.

Update: media-video/mplayer-20090226.28734 has the "real" use flag split into two, now. "real" enables internal support, which is fine, and "realcodecs" uses the external binary codecs.

For clarification, Real Player codecs are actually in three different packages:
win32codecs comes with older pre-compiled 32-bit binary codecs, which are used by mplayer. The "real" use flag enables installing the Real Player ones.
amd64codecs is also used by mplayer, and is a collection of 64-bit binary codecs, but unlike win32codecs, they are all Real Player codecs (no "real" use flag)
realcodecs is the codecs that are installed from the 32-bit binary RPM provided by Real Media (helixcommunity.org). It is just the realplayer package split up into two, so that those who only want the codecs, without the player (headless system without X, for example) can do just that.

If you want to enable the use flag for any of those three packages (mplayer, amarok, win32codecs), you'll need to unmask it for the package.

Here's how:

beandog · Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 5:31 pm Post subject:

Unlocked sticky, if anyone has questions / issues, post em here, kthxbai.
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mieszkoslusarczyk · Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 1:22 pm Post subject:

On amd64 does win32codecs flag pull amd64codecs or win32codecs?
Are win32codecs usable on amd64?

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freundfire · n00b Joined: 31 May 2010 Posts: 7

This info was really helpful to me: If you want to enable the use flag for any of those three packages (mplayer, amarok, win32codecs), you'll need to unmask it for the package. Thanks a lot..