[clue-tech] RealPlayer doesn't play

[Dale K. Hawkins]

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lsof is a nice utility.

$ lsof /dev/dsp
COMMAND   PID     USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE  NODE NAME
xmms    10679 dhawkins    9w   CHR   14,3      10413 /dev/dsp

- -Dale

Matt Gushee wrote:

| Match Grun wrote:
|
|>> Well, I thought I'd listen to some Web radio. I click on the link
|>> [http://foo/bar.ram], and RealPlayer comes up ... does its
|>> buffering thing, then starts playing, or so it claims--but no
|>> sound comes out. Similar results with several sites, both with
|>> *.ram and *.smil URLs.
|>>
|>> Now if, instead of clicking on the link, I try File -> Open Location
|>> in an already running Player (using an rtsp:// URL), I get the
|>> following error:
|>>
|>>   Cannot open the audio device. Another application may be using it.
|>>
|>> No, there are no other audio applications running.
|
|
|> There may be some audio daemons using the audio. Maybe you have esd
|> running? Have you tried restarting X, running RealPlayer first instead
|> of xmms. This might indicate that xmms stole the device!
|
|
| ESD?! You really think *I* would allow bloatware like that on my
| system?
|
| Seriously, though, I checked, and ESD is installed but not
| running--at least, 'ps aux |grep esd' doesn't show it, and there is
| nothing in my init scripts that would make it run. AFAIK the only
| audio daemon I use is JACK, and that runs only when I run it directly.
|
| I also tried restarting X, etc., but there was no change.
|
| Thanks for the suggestions.
|
| --
| Matt Gushee
| Englewood, CO, USA
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