Running Real player streams on linux

[Matthias Heiler]

Martin J Hooper <martinjh at blueyonder.co.uk> writes:

> david wrote:
> > The only thing you'll need to do after installing RealPlayer is to go to
> > System > Preferences > Sound > and uncheck the Enable Sound Server
> > startup option.
> > Then use the menu entry to fire up RealPlayer. This will then run
> > through it's own brief "first run" setup.
> > Then it should work in firefox perfectly.
> > I use RealPlayer/real player plugin regularly on the bbc site and it
> > always works OK.
> 
> Ahhh should have said am running KDE... ;)
> 
> Will have a look now I have downloaded the player.

I tried using kaffeine for real streams.  This didn't work because
kaffeine complained about a lib sipr.so.6.0 in /usr/local/lib/codecs.
Unfortunately, the error message was not helpful at all.

So I installed realplayer 10 and, after a lot of fiddling in
konquerors' configuration finally managed to get it called with real
streams.  Had to set the auto-timeout for the sound system in the
system configutation to 1sec.  Otherwise no sound would be heard.  (Of
course, no error message whatsoever is generated.)

Unfortunately, konqueror + realplay seems to be unstable (about 1
crash every 2 hours).  So I switched to firefox which I don't like as
much as konqueror but at least runs stable.

I do think that setting up multimedia apps is the weakest and most
ugly point in kubuntu.

Matthias