I have a new installation of fc5 (2174) on a compaq laptop. This is a reinstall of the 32-bit version, because I had such awful sound with the x86_64 kernel (amd turion chip, 2Gb memory).

Everything else seems to be working fine, and network performance is very good (fios 10mbit dsl). Even the ndiswrapper wireless setup went smoothly. But realplayer just can't do streaming audio. The same sites that work fine with win-xp are garbled with 'buffering/congestion' errors.

I see several other threads of folks with the same problem, and nobody offers any resolutions. Apparently, either your sound works fine, or it doesn't work at all. I'm wondering if it might have anything to do with the infamous 4K_STACKS build option.

Any ideas?

Does realplayer work with audio on your computer (ie, when it's not streaming)?
Can you stream audio through another program ok (on Linux)?
Any more description of the problem?

Just trying to get closer to the source of the problem, though to be honest I don't know much about streaming (my connection isn't good enough to stream )

Have you tried increasing the buffer size?

Hi, and thanks for your interest.

The cd player app works ok, so I know I've got sound. And I can use realplayer on win-xp, so I know I've got bandwidth, and at least some version of realplayer works with my hardware. I haven't found any other 'streaming' apps that understand npr's .smil files.

The only reason I hit on the 4KSTACKS question was that it came up as a warning when I built ndiswrapper for my wi-fi card. And, I'm getting disconnected from the wireless connection occasionally, so I think I'm about to try a new kernel anyway.

Realplayer??? Use Mplayer or Xine; these programs can play just about anything, no matter how corrupted--as long as you configure them correctly at compile time.

How would I use Mplayer to open a stream here (http://www.kcrw.com/)? On the top of the page there is a link called "KCRWLive". That opens a window which gives an option for Windows Media Player, Reaplayer or Itunes.

mplayer plugin plays it.

or, install realplayer.

cheers,