Re: Plugins, Turn Ons, Drop Outs.

[Steven Pritchard <steve@osiris.silug.org>]

Jeff Licquia said:
> Real Audio is a different story; I run that as a helper app, not a
> plugin.  The main deal with that now is that the 5.0 player has a
> problem with 2.2.x kernels which causes it to freak after a few
> seconds of playing a sound.  Evidently this is caused by some
> incompatibility between the new sound drivers and RA.  Don't know if
> the new G2 player has the same problem.

There's a fix for that in Documentation/Changes:

RealPlayer
==========

   Current releases of Real Player 5.0 depend on a bug in the sound
sub-system which is no longer there.  Consequently, they don't work.
Real is aware of the problem and should have an updated version of the
software available shortly.  In the mean time, you can always try
backing up your copy of rvplayer, and then editing it by:

   dd if=/dev/zero of=rvplayer bs=1 count=1 seek=657586 conv=notrunc
   dd if=/dev/zero of=rvplayer bs=1 count=1 seek=665986 conv=notrunc

   If you're lucky, you'll then have sound....

   You may also need to edit it with

   dd if=/dev/zero of=rvplayer bs=1 count=1 seek=702554 conv=notrunc

   as well.  Alternately, download rpopen from
http://onramp.i2k.com/~jeffd/rpopen/ and pre-load it before you run
rvplayer (it's a shared object which blocks rvplayer from doing the
NONBLOCKing open of /dev/dsp).

(The first two dd lines fixed the problem for me rather nicely.)

Steve
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