Nathaniel D. Daw wrote
> 
> 
> Has anyone successfully used the new RealAudio 3.0 under Linux or
> FreeBSD emulation? Many people, including myself, were using a patched
> kernel to run the 2.0 Linux version, but this fails for the new one.
> 
> In particular, 3.0 for Linux writes to the audio device in fragments
> of various odd sizes, and we fill them up with silence to the minimum
> audio blocksize, causing a stuttery and altogether unlistenable
> performance. This is a general problem with our linux emulation, and
> plagues the linux java port as well.
> 
> Does the new FreeBSD realaudio do the same thing? I'd try it but I'm
> not set up with the libraries and such. Speaking of which, does anyone
> have a tarred up /emul/freebsd they could slide me? I've looked at
> ftp.freebsd.org, but I couldn't find anything but thousands of those
> infernal segmented tar files.
> 

I tried to get Realaudio running using the Linux and FreeBSD version.
By memory it failed because it uses the /dev/dsp devices which NetBSD
seems to lack.


cheerio Berndt
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