[K12OSN] Sound AGAIN! RealPlayer 10

[Gideon Romm]

If you are having mozilla crashes with mplayer on fedora check out:

http://www.thesymbiont.com/index.php?module=documents&JAS_DocumentManager_op=viewDocument&JAS_Document_id=26

and

http://delrusso.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18&Itemid=41

-Gideon

On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 11:30, dahopkins at comcast.net wrote:

> Sound has never worked well for me in any configuration.  That said, 
>  
> > why is everyone so set on esd? I have K12LTSP 4.1 (based on FC2) I'm
> > using nasd and sound works for everything....flash, mozilla,
> realplayer 
> > 10, etc. All I had to do was enable it in lts.conf 
> 
> For me, nasd has serious lags with video (2-4 seconds is typical). 
> esd doesn't lag, but does get garbled and doesn't work at all with
> Realplayer 10.  Realplayer 8 does work with esd.  Sound is a
> continuing 'thorn in my side'.  I have MPlayer and this regularly
> crashes Mozilla.  There isn't much happiness at NCS wrt sound/video
> right now.
>  
> > >In K12LTSP 4.2.0 sound works ok at the thin clients if I choose ESD
> as 
> > >sound system in lts.conf, set sound system in X to ESD and also in
> e g 
> > >the 
> > >options to XMMS. 
> > > 
> > >But: I have not managed to get RealPlayer 10 to make any sound. I
> get the 
> > >error: "Error: Cannot open the audio device. Another application
> may be 
> > >using it." 
> > > 
> > >Will it at all be possible to get RealPlayer 10 to work at the thin
> > >clients? 
> 
> As above, it appears that RealPlayer 10 will not work with esd.  Try
> RP 8 (or maybe 9).
>  
> Sincerely,
> Dave Hopkins
>  
> 
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