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Chris Salter <chris@loncps.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>Now the main reason for following up - a postscript to the RealAudio
>encoder story. It turns out that the Win95/NT version 2.0+ as currently
>available from the RealAudio web site will not install under
>Win3.1/Win32s. I have what I believe to be the latest, an probably final
>Win32s (Version=1.30.167) but I get a unhandled exception detection
>fatal error during setup. Another contributor to d.h.a also could not
>install. A closer look at the posts claiming that there is a Win3.1
>version of the encoder suggests that they may using an earlier version.
>The filename quoted was "encode20.exe" whereas the one at the RealAudio
>site is "encode21.exe". I may do an archie search but I'm inclined to
>call it a day.
>
>Chris   

Don't give up yet!  I too have passed this way recently.  Here's the
full monty.  [Chris, you have already successfully done steps 1 to 3]

(1) Get a nice fresh WIN32S release, just to be on the safe side.  I
had a yucky old one so I upgraded with the one on the notorious Orange
CD (run \hotmetal\win32s\disk1\setup.exe)

(2) Get encoder21.exe from the Real Audio site; it'll do just nicely

(3) Ok, run it.  It stuffs up with an unhandled exception.  Don't
panic - it's just playing into our hands!

(4) This is the clever bit.  The dross left behind in the directory
you installed it from is exactly what you need.  

(4.1) Copy RA3228_8.DLL and RA3214_4.DLL to C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM.

(4.2) Copy ENCODER.EXE, WAVE_REC.DLL, RAENCODE.HLP, RACUT.EXE,
RAPASTE.EXE, RAX.EXE, RAUNINST.EXE and README.TXT to C:\RAENCODE (or
wherever).

(5) Create an icon for ENCODER.EXE in Program Manager (eg, drag it
from File Manager).

Don't forget to read the README, where it points out that it can't
cope with ADPCM files.

It seems to run ok-ish, although I had some problems using the player
after an encode run and needed a reboot.  The bad news is that this is
another of those programs, like Nutscrape etc, that insist on opening
the winsock (presumably in case you want to encode to a live stream?)
so it's nullsocks to the ready fellas.  If you use Trumpet, load that
first, then run your 'bye' script, then start the encoder.

The Linux version is a bit nicer to install and a lot nicer to run!
-- 
Dave Spencer (no longer collective)
Romford, Essex
dave@dsds.demon.co.uk            "I think it's a photograph of some tubing"
http://www.dsds.demon.co.uk/                                  - David Gedge