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538 Part IV . Running Applications Using Helix Player and RealPlayer 10 A tremendous amount of content is available on the Internet in the RealMedia and RealAudio formats. You can see and hear video clips of popular musicians and comics; view live events such as conferences, news stories, and concerts; and listen to your favorite radio stations when you are out of town. To play RealMedia and RealAudio content, you need, as you may have guessed, RealPlayer. Real Networks (www.real.com) is a leader in streaming media on the Internet. More than 50 million unique users have registered with Real Networks and its Web site, downloading more than 175,000 files per day. And that s not even the good news. The good news is that RealPlayer is available to run in Fedora Core. RealPlayer 10 for Linux is available via the Linux area of www.download.com and www.tucows.com and at http://proforma.real.com/real/player/unix/ unix.html. This player is not supported by Real Networks directly. In addition, Real has opened up the source code to the RealPlayer under the name Helix Player. Fedora Core 4 (on the DVD included with this book) includes a prereleased version of the Helix Player that you can try out. The instructions for configuring RealPlayer are delivered in HTML format, so you can read them in Mozilla or some other Web browser. If any patches or workarounds are required, you can find them by querying for the word Linux in the Real Networks Knowledge Base. To get there, click Support (from most Real Networks pages), and then click Knowledge Base. When you install RealPlayer, you are asked if you want to configure it to be used as a Netscape plug-in (which I recommend so that you can play real content in Mozilla). After that, when you open any Real content in your browser, RealPlayer opens to handle it. Alternatively, you can start RealPlayer from a Terminal window on your desktop by typing the following: $ realplay & Real Networks has gone to a subscription model for its content (you sign up and pay a monthly fee). To see what s available, and to decide if it is worth signing up, I suggest starting at the RealGuide site (www.realguide.real.com), which includes a few clips you can try out. Using a Digital Camera with Gtkam and gPhoto2 With the gtkam window, you can download and work with images from digital cameras. The gtkam window is a front end to gPhoto2, which provides support for dozens of digital cameras in Linux. The gtkam window works by attaching a supported digital camera to a serial or USB port on your computer. You can view thumbnails of the
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