Real player doesn't work on F9 under KDE

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

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