I have real player installed on ubuntu 6.0.6. I use it to to listen to bbc radio via the internet (including programs that I missed).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/gqt/

The bizarre thing is that sometimes it does not work. Ie it shows as playing but there is no sound however my sound is working and I can play cds.


Any ideas why ?

This may help I downloaded a .ram file and I tried to open it but for some reason real play was not among the list of applications. In helix player I got the message :-
The following components are required :-protocol_rtsp_rdt

But real player is installed :-

david@david-desktop:~/Desktop$ whereis realplay
realplay: /usr/bin/realplay /usr/lib/realplay /usr/bin/X11/realplay /usr/local/sbin/realplay.bin /usr/local/sbin/realplay /usr/local/sbin/realplay.bak /usr/share/realplay

Dunno what is going on with your realplayer, but I use mplayer to listen to the radio, streaming .rm files.

Sometimes I get a .ram which I open to obtain the link. Mplayer plays most of the addresses I get.

jlinkels