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by **Dewey Paciaf** » Mon, 13 Jan 1997 04:00:00

I've just downloaded the RealAudio player for Linux, and seem to have a bit of
a problem. First, I'm running 1.2.13 with an AMD PR133 cpu with 32 MB EDO and a
33.6 modem. I'm running version 3.0.1 of the Voxware sound driver. I'm using a
SoundBlaster 16 and I've tried the latest version of the OSS sound driver with
the same results. When I open local files, they play fine. When I open files
on the net using Netscape or RealAudio alone, the files don't play. Using
netstat, I can see the connection to the remote end and I see packets arriving.
RealAudio is chewing up the cpu, but nothing comes out of my speakers :(.
RealAudio never buffers any data, and when I look at the stats, everything is
zero. When I try to play an 11 second clip, for instance, RA looks like it's
going to do something impressive for the 11 seconds and then reports that it's
done.

Anybody else run across this?

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Dewey Paciaffi

by **Edouard Lafargu** » Tue, 14 Jan 1997 04:00:00

> I've just downloaded the RealAudio player for Linux, and seem to
> have a bit of a problem. First, I'm running 1.2.13 with an AMD PR133
> cpu with 32 MB EDO and a 33.6 modem. I'm running version 3.0.1 of
> the Voxware sound driver. I'm using a SoundBlaster 16 and I've tried
> the latest version of the OSS sound driver with the same
> results. When I open local files, they play fine. When I open files
> on the net using Netscape or RealAudio alone, the files don't
> play. Using netstat, I can see the connection to the remote end and
> I see packets arriving. RealAudio is chewing up the cpu, but
> nothing comes out of my speakers :(. RealAudio never buffers any
> data, and when I look at the stats, everything is zero. When I try
> to play an 11 second clip, for instance, RA looks like it's going to
> do something impressive for the 11 seconds and then reports that
> it's done. Anybody else run across this?

I did !
I corrected this problem by forcing Realaudio to use TCP
transfer mode: view/preferences/transport then click on "Select
network transport" and "change settings"; then enable only "Attempt to
use TCP for all content". It's the only way I got raplayer to play
non-local files. Anyway, I'm behind a kind of firewall, so UDP packets
from the outside world can't reach my PC...
If it works for you, let us know !

-- Edouard

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