realplayer

[Patrick Dupre]

On Wed, 29 Sep 2010, Michael Miles wrote:

> Patrick Dupre wrote:
>> On Tue, 28 Sep 2010, Michael Miles wrote:
>> 
>>> David wrote:
>>>> On 9/28/2010 4:26 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Patrick Dupre wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I installed realplayerGold11 on a fedora 13 machine.
>>>>>>> The application runs but I have no sound !
>>>>>>> How can I fix it ?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> vlc works fine !
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Thank.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Just a guess but make sure the pulseaudio plug in for Realplayer is 
>>>>>> there
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>> It works fine if I do padsp realplay.
>>>>> How can I install the pluseaudio plugins for realplay ?
>>>>> I did:
>>>>>   ln -s /usr/lib/libpulsedsp.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
>>>>> 
>>>>> but it does not help.
>>>>> I also cannot get the sound from firefox !
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thank for your help.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Did Realplayer ever get changed so that it is no longer spyware? I did
>>>> like software that 'phones home' and reports on me.  :-)
>>>> 
>> Sorry, I do not understand the point.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> It would seem that realplayer has a problem with pulseaudio and the
>>> passthrough from alsa to pulseaudio is not taking place.
>>> 
>>> alsa-plugins-pulseaudio needs to go in then give it a go.
>> 
>> What do you mean ?
>>  alsa-plugins-pulseaudio is installed
>> 
>> Should I modify /etc/asound.conf ?
>> 
>> @hooks [
>>     {
>>         func load
>>         files [
>>             "/etc/alsa/pulse-default.conf"
>>         ]
>>         errors false
>>     }
>> ]
>> 
>> Thank for your help.
>> 
>
>
>
> Although I do not run realplayer I had to do some rangling to get my tv tuner 
> to work.
> What I did was completely remove pulseaudio and set up alsa though 
> asound.conf
>
> The following is for Myth tv setup but the sound setup tutorial is what we 
> are after here anyway
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Configuring_Digital_Sound
>
>
>   Setting up ALSA's .asoundrc, Properly
>
> This is the chapter of interest
>
I am sorry, but it should be a lot easier !!!!
I did not have to face such problem in fc10 or fc11 !

vlc works
padsp realplay works

realplay should be able to plug in the pluseaudio module readily !!!!


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