Real Player 10 for Linux

[James Drabb]

Marc Schwartz wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 19:04, James Drabb wrote:
> 
>>Has anyone tired this yet under FC2?  I tried both the binary and the 
>>rpm and neither work.  When I run realplay, it just sits there with no 
>>error messages, realplayer never shows up, though there are two 
>>realplay.bin processes.
>>
>>Did anyone get it to work?
> 
> 
> 
> Working here Jim. I just installed it today using the RPM. This is on a
> Dell 5150 laptop with an nVidia card using the nVidia driver. I also
> just installed the latest kernel today (2.6.7-1.494.2.2).
> 
> Not sure what to suggest other than be sure that you do not have any
> older versions of realplayer or helixplayer installed, in case there is
> a conflict.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Marc Schwartz

Thanks Marc.  I found the problem.  Real Player 10 is using OSS instead 
of Alsa, esd or arts.  I had a gmplayer process that was hung in the 
background and I didn't know it.  Once I killed gmplayer, realplay 
worked fine.

Thanks,

Jim Drabb
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James Drabb
Senior Programmer
Davenport, FL USA