Hi all,
Ever since logging in this evening I've had the following sound issues:
-on trying to open a BBC stream from Firefox, got the message: 'Could not find an appropriate hxplay or realplay in the system path to use as an embedded player'. Did 'about
lugins' in Firefox which showed that 'Helix DNA Plugin: RealPlayer G2 Plug-In Compatible' is installed.
-saved the bbc .ram file and tried to open it with RealPlayer. The buffer loads and the timer starts running, so I presume its processing the stream, but no sound. In the past the radio 4 stream would just automatically open in standalone RealPlayer
-tried running mplayer to play some other radio streams from the command line with an alias command like I usually do. But again no sound, though mplayer appears to be processing the stream as it fires up normally and the timer, cache indicator etc are active.
-tried to play the saved .ram file with Amarok, but got the message 'There is no available decoder'
-with mp3 playback on Amarok sound output is fine.
The KDE kicker bar disappeared as well. Fixed that but no idea why any of this is happening...
Help much appreciated