[Gllug] Audio conflict

[Mick Wilkinson]

The executable is called realplay not realplayer.
When I try the artsd thing Realplayer opens but I get an error that says:
Cannot open the audio device. Another application may be using it.

I'm getting the same problems as you regarding Realplay/BBC.
Sorry I can't offer any further advice.

Mick

On Thursday 12 December 2002 11:19 pm Z, you wrote:
> OK
> artsd is running. I checked in KDE system guard, just to be different
> (and because I'm a bit scared of typing stufff I don't understand in the
> Konsole)
> But, daringly, with no other option available, I opened a konsole, as
> user, held my breath and typed:  artsdsp realplayer
> Only to get the cheery response:  /opt/kde3/bin/artsdsp: line 108: exec:
> realplayer: not found
> And quickly closed said Konsole again.
>
> The thing is I can get Realplayer running on its own. no problem.
> But whilst it should be embedded in Netscape 7,  it does not launch
> automatically from netscape when I click on a location (radio prog).
> The netscape player launches .... with no sound .... luckily bbc has an
> option allowing realplayer then to launch ... well mostly (and KDE
> Systemguard shows it then dependent on netscape). It then works for a
> while and then drops out .
> For some reason kmix also starts running. Recently I am killing kmix on
> birth so realplayer runs for 2 hours or so instead of half an hour.
>
> Am at this moment trying realplayer launched on its own. And have typed
> in a bbc ....rpm location as suggested by Colin. (¿Where can I find the
> locations I want to keep trying this for a while?)
>
> thanks for your help
>
> Norm
>
> Simon Stewart wrote:
> > On Tuesday, Dec 10, 2002, at 15:26 Europe/London, Norman Duncan wrote:
> >> Simon -I have no idea how to go about using artsdsp or esd..... but
> >> would love to try if its not too complicated.
> >
> > If sound is working from KDE events (you know, logging in, closing
> > windows, etc) then the chances are that artsd is up and running. Open
> > up a console and type:
> >
> > ps auxw | grep artsd | grep -v grep
> >
> > just to check (Tet will tell us now that we're not meant to check if
> > it's running that way. :P ) If it is, then just type:
> >
> > artsdsp realplayer
> >
> > And realplayer should start up. It'll think it's writing to /dev/dsp,
> > but in reality, it won't be cos those calls will be handled by artsdsp
> > (and therefore artsd) And that's all there is to it.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Simon

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