alsa update breaks RealPlayer 11

stan gryt2 at q.com
Wed Sep 9 16:49:28 UTC 2009


On Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:21:33 +0200
Sean Carlos <sean.carlos at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> I use the closed RealPlayer to listen to online radio, such as the
> BBC. Recently playback became very choppy... I tracked the problem
> down to a recent Alsa update.
> 
> Solution for a F11 x86_64 machine:
> 
> $ rpm --erase --nodeps alsa-lib-1.0.21-1.fc11.i586 
> alsa-lib-1.0.21-1.fc11.x86_64 alsa-lib-devel-1.0.21-1.fc11.x86_64
> 
> $ yum install -y --disablerepo=updates alsa-lib alsa-lib.i586
> alsa-lib-devel
> 
> Anyone else encountering this problem?


There were some regressions in the latest alsa-lib version, mentioned on
the alsa-devel ML, and they have released a corrected version.  Perhaps
those regressions are the cause of your problem and the corrected
version will fix your problem.




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