no sound with real play on fedora 12

[Marko Vojinovic]

On Tuesday 05 January 2010 18:27:03 Ralph Blach wrote:
> I have a fedor 12 x86_64 installion with and it is almost working
>  perfectly.
> 
> Skype works, with a little help from google, and everything pretty much
> works. the 32 bit wrapped flash play works, and mozplugger works.

I believe it is preferred to use the native 64bit flash, rather than 32bit 
wrapped. For me at least it works much better.
 
> When I installed the lastest realplayer the video works great but  no
> sound comes out.
> 
> I get the message,
> 
> ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1010:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
> 
> I am sure this is a library issue.  Does anybody have any suggestions?

I think the issue is that realpayer does not support pulseaudio yet. You may 
want to nag the realplayer developers about it, if they are willing to listen 
(which I doubt). Otherwise, I suggest to use some alternative player to play 
those files. I know mplayer can do it, probably some others can also.

Best, :-)
Marko