Re: Real Audio Player

["John Thompson" <john thompson attglobal net>]

On Sat, 4 Dec 1999 10:53:39 -0500, Karl-Heinz Schulz wrote:

>I'm trying to enable the Real Audio with Netscape.
>
>My Real Audio version is 5.0-3
>Red Hat 6.1
>
>Whenever I want to start the player using "rvplayer" I get a segmentation
>fault.
>The size and MD5 are ok.
>Running verify after the installation also returns no errors.
>
>What could cause the problem?

IIRC, rvplayer v5.0 relied on a kernel bug that was fixed in the v.2.2.x
kernel.  Perhaps you need to get the G2 realplayer or use the v5.0 patch
documented in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes:

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RealPlayer
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   Current releases of Real Player 5.0 depend on a bug in the sound
sub-system which is no longer there.  Consequently, they don't work.
Real is aware of the problem and should have an updated version of the
software available shortly.  In the mean time, you can always try
backing up your copy of rvplayer, and then editing it by:

   dd if=/dev/zero of=rvplayer bs=1 count=1 seek=657586 conv=notrunc dd
if=/dev/zero of=rvplayer bs=1 count=1 seek=665986 conv=notrunc

   If you're lucky, you'll then have sound....

   You may also need to edit it with

   dd if=/dev/zero of=rvplayer bs=1 count=1 seek=702554 conv=notrunc

   as well.  Alternately, download rpopen from
http://onramp.i2k.com/~jeffd/rpopen/ and pre-load it before you run
rvplayer (it's a shared object which blocks rvplayer from doing the
NONBLOCKing open of /dev/dsp).

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John (john thompson attglobal net)