RealPlayer takes down my wireless connection
 

Been running Lenny since it released and it's fully updated.

Just installed RealPlayer 10 from the correct location with no problems at install. Primary purpose is to watch NASA public channel, especially for shuttle launches. It's not working.

The NASA page (IW 3.0.6) does default to RP but then dies, taking the wireless connection down with it. My network manager (wicd) still shows a connection but only rebooting the router gets it going again.
Opening RP independently then pasting in the NASA URL gives the same result. Here's the link:

http://www.nasa.gov/ram/35037main-portal.ram

Any ideas?
Thanks,
Rick

The RAM doesn't exist but http://www.nasa.gov/55644main_NASATV_Windows.asx works.

Thanks for the reply, unSpawn. I had lost track of this post since it's so old. Are you guys on a "No Thread Left Behind" program? :)
That was a wierd time when the shuttle was about to launch and I couldn't get streaming media to work even though this box is a pretty vanilla Lenny install and has worked well. I figured out that the RAM was deleted or defunct; but never understood why the connection attempt would take down my router.
Part of my frustration was that the asx link was not working either (in VLC). Since I'd used VLC for this before I was scratching my head on this one too. I got it working fine (with a little wierdness) in Kaffeine.
Similarly, I've had some difficulty with avi files -- don't run in VLC anymore so I switched to Mplayer and that works okay (again, some wierdness).
Don't know what all this is about. Gut feel is that maybe with the latest saber-rattling and FUD some codecs are getting "tweaked".

Thanks again. Keep up the good work :)

Translated from the famous creed I'd agree that any question asked deserves an answer.
And NTLB is actually practiced by more than a few LQ members.
I usually don't pick ones older than one month (lqsearch.php?do=noreplies&page=11).


These days streaming video usually starts with encapsulating streams (and while it shouldn't be necessary anyway) a ''curl (-A acceptable_user_agent ;-p) http://host/path/filename.asx" might reveal streams to grab directly. Other than that enabling verbose output (log to file?) and checking codecs definately would be my first TS suggestions, yes.