Subject: Re: Does the realplayer-7nb3 package work for you?
To: Duncan McEwan <duncan@MCS.VUW.AC.NZ>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/19/2000 20:57:44
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 10:31:07AM +1300, Duncan McEwan wrote:
> [I'm not sure if this is the right list. I wasn't sure whether tech-pkg is
> just for discussions about the package system infrastructure, and since
> realplayer-7nb3 is only available on i386 anyway, I figured it would do...]
>
> Anyway, I've been trying to get the realplayer-7nb3 package to work without any
> success.
>
> The "realplay" program starts up and plays its introductory welcome sound, so
> it knows how to talk to the audio device on my pc (NetBSD/i386 1.5I from early
> November).
>
> But when I ask it to play a realaudio stream from the Internet I get no sound.
> I get a "connecting..." message. Then (sometimes) it says "G2" after it
> (presumably depending on the type of audio stream) and the title bar of the
> window changes (so it seems to have connected to the audio source). But I get
> no sound ... :-(
Hum, I think this is because of a linux emulation problem which has not been
tracked down yet :(
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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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