cant play .ra, .ram files got command line error

[sasankau]

Dear All,

When I open the .ra file using the VLC media player I got following error in command line; "the command line options coudnt be loaded check that they are valid. Press RETURN key to continue....

But when press return key nothing is happend.
Pls help me to resolve this.

OS: Windows XP
VLC version: 0.8.4

BR,

Sasanka

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

VLC cannot read .ra files.

[Neko2]

Realaudio doesn't work? Maybe not in 0.8.4, but it's supposed to work in newer versions.

[VLC_help]

sasankau:
you have sample file you could share to us? And please update your VLC version.

[sasankau]

But it should work for .ra files. I had been using this before format the HD,I reinstall it agin on Win XP os but now it is not working. Any codecs to install?

[sasankau]

pls get a sample file from

http://www.infolanka.com/miyuru_gee/kk/k491.ra

this file also nor working.

[VLC_help]

VLC has all the codecs build-in. So installing any codecs doesn't help VLC. And that sample doesn't crash VLC. It doesn't work properly with 0.9.8a but does work properly with 1.0.0 nightlies.

[sasankau]

VLC 1.0.0 Could you pls give a URL to down load from. Link found from google stuck on mid way.

[VLC_help]

http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/win32/?C=M;O=D
but nightlies server seems to be broken now. Hopefully it will be fixed soon.