Re: Realplayer 8 stopped working

Jonathan Cowherd wrote:
>  
> What type of sound card are you using?  Are you using ALSA or just the
> kernel driver?

The soundcard in the Dell Inspiron laptop is an ESS Maestro.

> 
> I assume that all other sound software works as expected?  Mp3 streams via
> xmms, etc?

Hmmm.  XMMS is no longer working.  It races through the file and there 
is no sound.  Sound effects with KDE are normal.

- JS

> 
> Jonathan Paul Cowherd
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Sved [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2002 1:25 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [suse-multimedia-e] Realplayer 8 stopped working
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Using SuSe 8.0 (previously 7.2) and the RealPlayer 8.
> 
> Only problem in the past was the processor clock rate on my laptop.  If 
> energy saving was not disabled it could cause the Realplay to play at 
> the wrong speed.
> 
> Now there is a wierd problem.  The "welcome" plays for only 0.2 seconds 
> and there is no audio. This occurs for all real media. i.e. A video will 
> play for a frame or two and then stop - no sound.  The aRTs in KDE 
> control center - sound - server is set on at startup as always.
> 
> The sound I/O was set to autodetect.   I have now set it to ARTS.
> 
> Realplayer is set to use native sound driver - as always.
> 
> Trying the other two sound driver preference options does allow RP8 to 
> play video or audio but there is no audio output.
> 
> I had a look at the real.com community support (UNIX) site and tried the 
> various posted suggestions that looks relevant but there has been no fix.
> 
> I uninstalled and reinstalled RP8.
> 
> Once it worked almost correctly with only poor sound quality even though 
> the sound quality settings were the usual (16 bit etc.)
> 
> But it did no last.  Again there is no sound as described above.  A 
> fresh unistall, restart, install of RP8 did not help.
> 
> The only recent change was the installation of Mozilla 1.1 (previously I 
> had 0.9.8) for many months with RP8 working OK.  and Java 1.4 RE
> 
> I suspect that the problem may be caused by a SuSe 8.0 configuration bug 
> or such but I do not know what to look for and I do not want to 
> experiment !
> 
> Any suggestions please ?
> 
> 
> -- John
> 
>