Re: Plugins, Turn Ons, Drop Outs.

[Tim Grossner <tg@wintermute.cityscape.net>]

Actually i have found that when playing a video w/ sound, the soundtrack
is several seconds behind the video...not sure why that is...





Tim Grossner, Systems Engineer
CityScape Communications
'The Total Technology Solution Provider'
phone 217.535.1010


On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Steven Pritchard wrote:

> 
> 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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