Running Real player streams on linux
Matthias Heiler
heiler at gmx.de
Sun May 29 14:45:12 UTC 2005
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
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