Real player doesn't work on F9 under KDE
Patrick O'Callaghan
pocallaghan at gmail.com
Fri Jun 20 15:43:26 UTC 2008
On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 07:19 -0700, stan wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > Now it runs the video with no sound at all, but at least it doesn't
> > freeze. However there's a continual stream of error messages on the
> > terminal saying:
> >
> > *** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection refused
> > *** Is your sound server running?
> > *** See: http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/Troubleshooting
> >
> > over and over.
> >
> > poc
> >
> >
>
> This implies that Real is pulse aware. It is trying to use pulse for
> audio, and
> failing because your server is down. When Real comes up, there should be a
> way to tell it to use alsa directly, or pulse, or even OSS. I don't
> have it so I
> can't tell you for sure, but try edit->preferences if it is there.
>
> So, in the above scenario, while the video is running, edit the sound device
> preference and make it alsa or OSS. You should get sound. And there should
> be a pulse of some sort there, that if you select it, works with
> pulseaudio. If it
> doesn't, the pulse plugin in Real is probably incompatible with the
> pulse server.
> Thus the bad sound behavior.
Real does not work with Pulse. I got it working with OSS, see my related
post on another branch of this thread.
poc
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