Re: Realplayer 8 stopped working

Hi Eduard,

Thanks for you suggestions.

I tried.  I lookede into a XMMS config file.  I saw nothing related to 
arts plugin.

I could find nothing about how to enable the arts plugin.


How do I stop the arts deamon ?

Jonathon's questions also lead to the conclusion that that something 
like a deamon has stopped working.  It is whatever is necessary to 
handle streams and mp3's etc. So perhaps the easiest thing to to is to 
reinstall such.  But what should I reinstall (ie what SuSe packages) ?

regards
John

Eduard Avetisyan wrote:
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> Hi John,
> 
> Try to check if your xmms has the arts plugin enabled... 
> I would also try to stop the arts daemon at all and see if your
> player works that way...
> 
> Regards
>      Eduard
> 
> --- John Sved <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>Jonathan Cowherd wrote:
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>>> 
>>>What type of sound card are you using?  Are you using ALSA
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>>or just the
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>>>kernel driver?
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>>The soundcard in the Dell Inspiron laptop is an ESS Maestro.
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>>
>>>I assume that all other sound software works as expected? 
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>>Mp3 streams via
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>>>xmms, etc?
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>>Hmmm.  XMMS is no longer working.  It races through the file
>>and there 
>>is no sound.  Sound effects with KDE are normal.
>>
>>- JS
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>>
>>>Jonathan Paul Cowherd
>>>Linux and Java Administrator
>>>Genscape, Inc.
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>>>Office: (502) 583-3730
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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
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>>laptop.  If 
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>>>energy saving was not disabled it could cause the Realplay
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>>to play at 
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>>>the wrong speed.
>>>
>>>Now there is a wierd problem.  The "welcome" plays for only
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>>0.2 seconds 
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>>>and there is no audio. This occurs for all real media. i.e.
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>>A video will 
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>>>play for a frame or two and then stop - no sound.  The aRTs
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>>in KDE 
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>>>control center - sound - server is set on at startup as
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>>always.
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>>>The sound I/O was set to autodetect.   I have now set it to
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>>ARTS.
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>>>Realplayer is set to use native sound driver - as always.
>>>
>>>Trying the other two sound driver preference options does
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>>allow RP8 to 
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>>>play video or audio but there is no audio output.
>>>
>>>I had a look at the real.com community support (UNIX) site
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>>and tried the 
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>>>various posted suggestions that looks relevant but there has
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>>been no fix.
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>>>I uninstalled and reinstalled RP8.
>>>
>>>Once it worked almost correctly with only poor sound quality
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>>even though 
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>>>the sound quality settings were the usual (16 bit etc.)
>>>
>>>But it did no last.  Again there is no sound as described
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>>above.  A 
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>>>fresh unistall, restart, install of RP8 did not help.
>>>
>>>The only recent change was the installation of Mozilla 1.1
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>>(previously I 
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>>>had 0.9.8) for many months with RP8 working OK.  and Java
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>>1.4 RE
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>>>I suspect that the problem may be caused by a SuSe 8.0
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>>configuration bug 
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>>>or such but I do not know what to look for and I do not want
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>>to 
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>>>experiment !
>>>
>>>Any suggestions please ?
>>>
>>>
>>>-- John
>>>
>>>
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