real player performance problems (not ubuntu specific)

[david]

On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 08:10, Eamonn Sullivan wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 07:24:24 +0000, david <nux at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> > Greetings,
> > 
> > I seem to be having problems with Real Player (still). When first using
> > RP8 I had loads of problems. RP8 was (rightly) described to me as a
> > P.O.S. The play back would cut out after 10 minutes or so and would NOT
> > come back without a reboot. Then, version 10 of real player came out and
> > things were more or less normal for a while. But recently the old
> > problem is back. I can't reliably listen to Radio 4 (BBC) for more than
> > 10-15 minutes before the player cuts out and reports that "no such
> > stream exists".
> 
> I listen to R4 for hours at a time using the RealAudio plugin in
> Firefox. Is the player running separately or do you just see the
> pop-up window on the BBC radio site? The only niggles I have is that
> it is sometimes reluctant to start. I have to close the pop-up window
> a couple of times before the sound actually starts.
> 

Sometimes the bbc radio player "pop up window" appears and the sound
starts. Sometimes RealPlayer then opens up and occasionally it actually
connects.