
         RealPlayer 11.0.0.4028 for Linux

                  Release Notes

                    March 2008


The RealPlayer 11.0.0.4028 for Linux is a desktop media player that includes support for RealAudio, RealVideo, MP3, Flash, MPEG-4 (fee-based), Windows Media and other non-open source components.

  Minimum System Requirements

     * 500MHz Intel Pentium III processor or
       equivalent
     * 256MB of RAM
     * 30MB available disk space
     * 28.8Kbps modem
     * Sound card supported by ALSA or OSS drivers
     * 65,000-color video display card set
       to display at 800x600 (video)

  Recommended System Requirements

     * 1.5 GHz Intel Pentium IV processor or equivalent 
     * 512B of RAM
     * 30MB available disk space
     * High speed internet connection
     * Sound card supported by OSS/ALSA drivers
     * 16 bit color video display card set to display a 
       resolution of 1024x768

   This is the readme file for the RealPlayer 11.0.0.4028 
   release. This file will be modified as we have more 
   information - so please do check our website
   periodically for new and updated information.

  What's New in 11.0.0.4028

     * Windows Media decoders.
     * Playlist support.
     * PerfectPlay (Superbuffer).
     * ALSA Audio Device Support.
     * Surround Sound Playback Support.

   This build also includes many fixes and incremental 
   improvements over the earlier milestone releases. A 
   lot of the work in this build also has gone towards
   stabilizing features and fixing many known issues and 
   bugs.

  Known Issues

     * Previous and Next buttons might be disabled and 
       require toggling of Continuous check box to 
       re-enable them.
     * High Definition Windows Media is not supported.
     * If you are having problems playing back media 
       and are behind a proxy you can try using rtsp 
       transport via HTTP only (go to transports pane in
       Preferences, select "use specified transport" and 
       click "configure RTSP." Then uncheck "attempt
       multicast," "attempt UDP," and "attempt TCP.")
     * Some content encoded in RealAudio 3 fails to play. 
       Multimedia content that uses RA3 as the audio codec
       will still play without audio. RA3 has been deprecated.
     * Player does not play gnome-vfs URI's (smb://). 
       Workaround is to mount the samba share using 
       smbmount etc. (issue #2269).
     * See the Helix Player bug tracker for a list of the 
       latest issues that affect the player.
     * The value of the UDPPort preference, if used, needs 
       to be set as a range,
       for example:

        UseUDPPort=1
        UDPPort=7000-7010

       Setting it to a single number will result in a player 
       crash.

Technical Support

   Support pages for the RealPlayer for Linux are available 
   at http://service.real.com. Click on RealPlayer and 
   choose RealPlayer 11 for Linux/Unix from the drop down 
   list.

   To reach the development team please send email to
   users@player.helixcommunity.org.

   You can check the player help page in the Helix Player 
   project: http://player.helixcommunity.org

   Thank you for using RealPlayer!
