My apology for cross posting, but I hope someone somewhere might have some light to shed on an unexpected behavior of the latest trplayer release, 1.2.0. I have a .rm file which no longer plays correctly after upgrading to 1.2.0 from a recent beta release, nothing else was changed. Both the beta that worked correctly and the 1.2.0 version which does not were running with RealPlayer 8. The file in question is 439 kb in size. Trplayer reports that it has a bit rate of 64.7 KB and a playing time of 53 seconds. Trplayer runs for the full 53 seconds and terminates normally, but only produces sound for about 20 or 25 seconds, silence after that. As I say, the older beta copy worked fine, it is only the 1.2.0 release that shows this problem. I know a lot of speakup users also use trplayer and I am hoping somebody might have a suggestion about what is going on here. On a related matter: What is 'bit rate' in trplayer anyway? Sometimes it seems to be sampling rate, but sometimes it seems to be bandwidth, and other times goodness only knows what it is reporting. Perhaps RealAudio is a variable bit rate system? I am really puzzled. I have found that trplayer/realplay does a great job on mp3 files, much better than other tools on very low bandwidth, and on mp3 biles the 'bity rate' reported by trplayer is consistently the bandwidth and not the sampling rate; i.e., file size divided by playing time equals bit rate, taking units into account correctly. Sometimes that works for .rm files but often it does not. I am puzzled. Chuck My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh The Moon is Waxing Crescent (25% of Full)
