No sound in RealPlayer 11.
I admit I'm baffled. In Fedora 8 AMD 64 using KDE I have sound except [as far as I know] in RealPlayer 11. In Firefox I have RealPlayer plugins enabled when I go to:
http://www.rte.ie/radio/index.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/i/ RealPlayer opens and plays but with no sound. I do have sound in Flash [You Tube] and mplayer [Apple Movie Trailers] as well as in kde. Here's some info I gathered while searching this forum; If I select to play streaming audio at bbc.com and run: Code:
# lsof | grep dsp Some more: Code:
system-config-soundcard Code:
# alsamixer Card: PulseAudio Chip: PulseAudio View: [Playback] Capture All Item: Master Master is, of course, unmuted and set to 71. Code:
# rpm -qa | grep alsa Edit: I forgot to mention that in RealPlayer 11 you can select whether it uses alsa or oss for audio. alsa is selected currently. |
Here's terminal output when I try to play something:
Code:
$ realplay |
And there's more. I downloaded some music videos with Azureus. If I try to open them with RealPlayer 11 they won't open because I don't have 'asx'. If I open them in Kaffeine it promptly crashes. If I open them in MPlayer they open and play with sound but there is an error message:
Error! [AO_ALSA] Unable to find simple control 'PCM', 0. |
popatopalous,
Is this still an issue for you? I am assuming you are the same person who posted on HC.org with this problem :). If so, it might be worth re-posting your solution so other people might find it useful. As our developer mentioned on the Helix forums, a fix will be available soon. |
I'm running Fedora 9 and have the same issues.
Kernel 2.6.25.9-76.fc9.i686 RealPlayer 11.0.0.4028 (GOLD) I haven't noticed any other problems with sound than in RealPlayer. Anyone with any solution? |
Possible workaround for now
The problem caused by PulseAudio can be worked around by commenting out (as root user) the following line:
/etc/alsa/pulse-default.conf in ALSA config. file (as shown with a pound "#" sign below): /etc/alsa/alsa.conf: @hooks [ { func load files [ #"/etc/alsa/pulse-default.conf" "/etc/asound.conf" "~/.asoundrc" ] errors false } ] It is possible that this command will fix the PulseAudio problem too: su asoundconf unset-pulseaudio This workaround is not a convenient one and the issue has been fixed in our internal builds. We will bringing out an update to RealPlayer 11 for Linux very soon with the mentioned bug fix (along with other bug fixes) and Windows Media playback optimizations (including WMV HD playback and playback support for Windows Media Video 7 and 8). |
possible workaround
1) pulseaudio --kill
2) In realplay set OSS as Audio driver (Tools->Preferences->Hardware: Audio driver) 3) nohup pulseaudio & it works on fedora core 8 tested with rte.ie radio |
1) pulseaudio --kill
2) In realplay set OSS as Audio driver (Tools->Preferences->Hardware: Audio driver) 3) nohup pulseaudio & worked for me too in F9 - many thanks |
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