'Twas brillig, and Doug at 30/03/11 06:48 did gyre and gimble: > Since I wrote this, I tried to play a radio station that worked fine > this afternoon. It was coming out the speaker as above. > Just a minute ago I "tuned it in" and RealPlayer GOLD said it was > playing, but no sound came out anywhere! RealPlayer GOLD??? Really? In this day and age??? :p I can't remember but I think RP is either ESD based or OSS based. When it's playing, check what files it has open by doing "losf | grep real" (assuming the binary name has the word real in it... it might be rplay or similar so double check). I suspect it's either using OSS and outputting to a card that's not wired up to any speakers. But if in doubt, make it play and run "pacmd list". If the application doesn't show up there, then it's not using pulseaudio. If it is using OSS for sound then run it via padsp. e.g. if the binary is: realplayer, then run it by typing "padsp -- realplayer". This should make things work. Alternatively ask PCLOS to support osspd instead which would solve this problem (although really OSS sound output should just die....) FWIW, I can't think of a good reason to use a realplayer these days. Other apps have supported RP streams for years. > Thanx for your patience. No worries, happy to help out :) COl -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mageia Contributor [http://www.mageia.org/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]
