Re: realplayer 10 hassles

[Adam Hardy <adam.ant@cyberspaceroad.com>]

Adam Hardy on 28/11/05 21:39, wrote:
> Alexis Huxley on 28/11/05 20:36, wrote:
>
> > > Using RealPlayer 10 and it won't output sound anymore, just video, 
> > > when trying *.ram feeds from websites.
> >
> >
> > Is the audio device in use? Try 'aumix -W90; killall esd artsd' and then
> > try again. Also try 'fuser /dev/dsp /dev/audio /dev/mixer', that should
> > output nothing. What are the permissions/owner/group on those devices?
>
>
> Gnome is using esd. I killed it as you said but didn't get any joy.
>
> adam@gondor:~$ fuser /dev/dsp /dev/audio /dev/mixer
> /dev/audio: No such file or directory
> /dev/.static/dev: Permission denied
> /dev/mixer:           5197  7145
>
> Do I need permissions of some group for my user?
>
> I tried aoss realplay following some advice I googled, but still no sound.

It says 'cannot open audio device, another application may be using it' 
if I try playing an OGG file.

If I try a stream from online, it give no errors, it just remains silent.

There seem to me to be conflicting events, e.g. I find esd running, like 
this:

adam      9763     1  0 21:53 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/esd -terminate 
-nobeeps  -as 5 -spawnfd 18

but then when I kill that and try realplay, still no dice.

And confusingly when I then play xmms, esd doesn't re-appear, so I don't 
know what debian is using to handle sound now.