No sound from RealPlayer [SOLVED]

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 28/10/05, Eamonn Sullivan <eamonn.sullivan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, here's odd one I can't solve:
>
> I'm using Breezy, dist-upgraded in stages from Warty. Sound works
> perfectly for every application except RealPlayer, and that only
> stopped working about a week ago. The only thing I did around then was
> to apt-get edubuntu-desktop (*huge* hit with my kids, btw, nice work)
> and then removed edubuntu-artwork (so that I can have the normal
> themes for the adults).
>
> I can't imagine how this managed to break RealPlayer and *just*
> RealPlayer, so I could be totally wrong here. All other sound events
> work fine: BMP player, VLC, etc.
>
> I've reinstalled RealPlayer (v10) from Real's Web site, tried playing
> with the settings in .asoundrc (then moved it out of the way), changed
> from ESD to Alsa and then back in Multimedia Settings -- all to no
> effect.
>
> Anyone have any ideas I can try? I miss my Radio 4 in the morning....
>
> -Eamonn
>

Just to document the solution to this problem, if it occurs to anyone
else: I needed to rerun gstreamer's registration:

$ gst-register-0.8

RealPlayer works fine now and I'm listening to Radio 4.

-Eamonn