Re: Realplayer and ALSA
On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 23:20:18 -0800 (PST)
Robert Kopp <iconoklastic@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have made two Sarge installations within the past
> few months, one with a 2.4 kernel and one with a 2.6
> kernel. I installed Realplayer on both of them, but
> sound is obtained from .ram only with the 2.4-kernel
> installation. There is a note that Realplayer 10 is
> not designed for use with ALSA, and my 2.6-kernel
> installation probably uses it.
>
> So I'm wondering what to do, since I'd like to access
> such files. Totem does not open them either.
I was only able to get Realplayer 10 to work by running it with the
following command:
aoss realplayer
The aoss utility is in the alsa-oss package. I've tested it with both
2.6.9-2-k7 and 2.6.12-1-k7 so far.
HTH,
Jacob
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