Bug#686570: mplayer doesn't play REALAUDIO format file

Mon Sep 3 18:06:13 UTC 2012

On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 02:28:51PM +0200, Klaumi Klingsporn wrote:
> Am / On Mon, 03 Sep 2012 19:43:39 +0800
> schrieb / wrote XIANGYU LIU <u122334 at gmail.com>:
> 
> > ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec sipr3260.dll.
> 
> To play this file your need proprietary sipr3260.dll which is -because
> of legal reasons- not in Debian and only provided outside of Debian in
> die w32codecs-Package, 

This information is incorrect. FFmpeg has a decoder for sipr and it
works fine for the file.
In fact, MPlayer compiled from latest SVN will play it (64 bit build,
so no binary codecs involved).
Libav which is used in Debian misses the equivalent to FFmpeg
commit 1d0d63052b82c76e10c45cd38cdd27677de72e81 and thus MPlayer
using it cannot play it and it potentially will have issues playing SIPR
in other cases.