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Webex Player on Linux

March 10th, 2008

We use an application called Webex in work to remotely access peoples machines. These sessions can be recorded and therefore we often use this to view sessions from other Engineers and to record training sessions that may have been given elsewhere. One place to see a lot of trainings is from the VMWorld website which has a webex recording of each presentation in VMWorld, including mine.

Up until recently I have been able to access peoples machines from my Linux box but I haven’t been able to play recordings. However I have finally figured it out so I am posting the instructions for anyone else who may be interested.

Login to your webex account
On the left menu, select “download”
Click on “recording and play back”
Click in “Create a URL for a Recording page” at the bottom of the page
Copy and paste http://www.webex.com/wrf/test.wrf in the “URL for recording” field,
Click submit and then click test playback.

This will install webex player in ~/.webex/atrecply

If you do not have a Webex account I am not sure how you can download this software. However looking at the site I see that you can download the Windows and Mac versions for free so I assume Webex do not mind if I include a link here to the Linux executables for anybody who might be interested.

Download a compress copy of the files here.

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12 Comments Add your own

1. Dave Gould | March 12th, 2008 at 22:44
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.12 on Mac OS X

Thanks for posting this. I just received a .wrf file today and need to view it.

Unfortunately I can’t see any of the graphic content when I play the file. I tried using Wine to run the Windows version but I just get a segfault.

Shucks.
2. thesraid | March 13th, 2008 at 14:10
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.12 on Ubuntu Linux

Were you able to get this running? I know there is a Mac version as well that you can download.
3. Dave Gould | March 13th, 2008 at 16:29
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.12 on Mac OS X

Yeah, it worked fine on the Mac (PowerPC software on an Intel Mac). I was hoping to watch it away from our somewhat chaotic office, but I don’t own a Mac. No big deal.
4. A sad F7 user | June 28th, 2008 at 23:25
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14 on Fedora Linux

Do you by chance know if there is a more up to date version of this? Perhaps there are core libraries and specific versions it depends on? I tried running a wrf file from the MySQL site and wasn’t even able to get audio working. I am on Fedora 7 (yeah, I know I need to upgrade).

Thanks for the link though, much appreciated. Just wondering if there were any system requirement notes?

Thanks again!
5. Andrea Meschino | July 3rd, 2008 at 12:34
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14 on Windows XP

Hi!

I’ve tried WebEx on an Asus Eeepc 900 but the webcam doesn’t works… did you have the same problem?
6. Massimo | September 1st, 2008 at 21:26
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1 on Windows XP

Hi,

I’m very very new to Linux. I kinda like it, but I’m not sure what’s the command line for installing Webex player above.

Would you please be so kind to help step by step?
I’m using a Acer Aspire one a150 with Linpus Linux (~Fedora)

Thanks,
Massimo
7. thesraid | September 2nd, 2008 at 12:06
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1 on Linux

I was looking at the Webex website and it seems they only support Ubuntu. I suppose it should work on other Linux flavours but the way I outlined above is the only way i know of installing it. I don’t use a webcam with Webex (although my webcam does work with Skype).

And the above is the only way I know of installing it. i do not think there is a command line installation. The file I provided should allow you to run the webex player directly from the folder, once you have extracted it. Simply type the following from within the extracted folder and it should work.

chmod 777 atrecply
./atrecply
8. Fabiano | September 18th, 2008 at 17:43
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1 on Linux

Thanks for the information, but when I did ./atrecply in Ubuntu I had the message:

./atrecply: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
9. thesraid | September 18th, 2008 at 19:10
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1 on Linux

Yeah I’ve seen that error as well. I can’t remember where right now. When I am back at my desk on Monday I’ll look into it and let you know. However I think it might be that the version of Ubuntu you are running isn’t supported…….but I’ll find out Monday and post it here.
10. thesraid | September 26th, 2008 at 15:35
Mozilla Firefox 3.0 on Linux

Sorry for taking so long to get back. A list of supported OS and browsers for Webex is available on their support site.
What seems to be happening in your case is that you don’t have some required libraries installed. If you are using Ubuntu you can install them using the following command yum install compat-libstdc++.so.5.
Hope this helps.
11. vbg | November 24th, 2008 at 17:11
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1 on Linux

Hi
Thanx a lot for the infor given by you. It was a great help.

CAn you tell us how to play arf files on linux
12. thesraid | November 24th, 2008 at 17:22
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.3 on Ubuntu Linux

What would you normally use to play an arf file? I’ve never heard of them