Re: Realplayer 7 and Esound

[kmself@ix.netcom.com]

On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 08:23:37AM -0500, Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong wrote:
> >>>>> "Bruno" == Bruno Boettcher <bboett@erm1.u-strasbg.fr> writes:
> 
>     > On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 02:25:36PM +0200, Lepus wrote:
>     >> I have installed Realplayer 7 on my Linux box, running Potato
>     >> with ALSA
>     >  am using woody with oss and i noticed this problem too,
>     > interestingly the realplayer doesn't work when i change the
>     > preferences.... i tryed first esd with no succes and the warning
>     > that another device is accessing the audio device and the oss
>     > which resultet in very slow motion with videos...
> 
>     >  so me too i would be interested in the causes and a possible
>     > fix, since it is quite annoying to have to stop and restart
>     > esd...
> 
> A way to get around it at the moment is to just "esdctl off" when you
> need Realplayer, and then "esdctl on" to turn ESD back on.  You can
> also put "esddsp realplayer %s" in the helper application prefrences.

It goes without saying that this can be incorporated into a script
wrapper for invoking realplayer:

    #!/bin/bash
    esdctl off
    /opt/RealPlayer7/realplay $*    # substitute appropriate path
    edsctl on



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