real player performance problems (not ubuntu specific)

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 08:46:05 +0000, david <nux at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> Sometimes the bbc radio player "pop up window" appears and the sound
> starts. Sometimes RealPlayer then opens up and occasionally it actually
> connects.

Sod's (Murphy's) law. Just after I joined this thread, I'm starting to
get dropped connections every half hour or so this morning (I'm
working from home). I still only need to close and reopen the pop-up
window a couple of times to restart, though. This is what my plugins
directory looks like in Firefox (I'm using 1.0 in /usr/local/):

esullivan at gandalf:/usr/local/firefox/plugins $ ls -l
total 2148
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     staff         856 2004-11-09 10:04 flashplayer.xpt
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     staff     2096844 2004-11-09 10:04 libflashplayer.so
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     staff          63 2004-11-09 10:00
libjavaplugin_oji.so ->
/usr/local/lib/jdk/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     staff       18840 2004-11-07 13:27 libnullplugin.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     staff       57241 2004-11-09 09:57 nphelix.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     staff        5086 2004-11-09 09:57 nphelix.xpt


Notice that the nphelix* files are copied over, not symlinks. But I
forget why I did that, so probably a symlink would work.

I'm using a home-build computer with a stock Intel motherboard and
on-board sound, if that helps.