Real Player -Suse 9.3 No Sound

floydking · 11-22-2005, 04:32 AM

Hi!
I'm trying to listen to the radio using Real Player in Suse 9.3. Although I'm certain that I've made sure that no other device is hogging the sound and that the sound is configured properly, Real Player remains silent, even though it loads perfectly well and looks to be running perfectly. Amorok Plays MP3s with no problems, so my external audio system definitely isn't to blame. I can't help thinking that I must be missing something obvious. Can someone help please?

salparadise · 11-22-2005, 06:59 AM

Are you using Gnome?

Have a look on the Gnome control panel and see if the Sound Server is set to "Enable sound server start up". If it's isn't enable it.
If it's enabled then disable it.

If this fails, you might try launching it from the command line and see if there's any error messages.

If that fails I'm out of suggestions...

floydking · 11-22-2005, 07:40 AM

Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm using KDE. I have mp3s playing on Amorock at the moment, yet whenever I curtail this process and attempt to use RealPlayer there's still no sound.

nonsense28sal · 11-22-2005, 04:16 PM

Do you have the helix codecs installed? Helix is the Real Player version in Linux.

floydking · 11-22-2005, 04:57 PM

Realplayer arrived pre-installed, is there anything else I should have to enable it?

floydking · 11-22-2005, 06:40 PM

I really don't know how or why, but this evening it suddenly began working! Thanks anyway.