Realplayer 9 and crashes

[Bill Spears]

On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 20:17, Satish Balay wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Bill Spears wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying to get realplayer 9 to work.  My kernel is
> > kernel-2.4.22-1.2149.nptl.  When I try to execute it from a terminal a
> > gui flashes briefly and then the error message: Floating point exception
> > appears.
> > I've tried these versions:
> > $ env LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.22 realplayer
> 
> Is this value supported?
> 
> > as well as =2.2.5, =2.4.19
> > as well as
> > $ realplayer
> > 
> > Is there anyway to make this work?
> 
> Perhaps you could do 'rm ~/.Real*' and try again? I've successfully
> used the following with rh9
> 
> LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1 realplay
> 
> BTW: once the realplayer codecs are installed - you can copy/link them
> into the location /usr/lib/win32 - and other players like mplayer/xine
> can now pick this up - and play .rm files.
> 
> Satish

Tried rm ~/.Real*.  didn't work with env LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1.
I can play local files with xine, and sometimes streaming.

Thanks for your help
-- 
Bill Spears <bspears at easystreet.com>