Traci,
I tried playing with settings after your suggestion ... no dice..........ugggh how
frustrating... obviously this is not critical to my system running but would like
to know what is causing it...
Has anyone else been eable to run real player with realtime streams... Could
someone try to connect to rush limbaugh real time who is running Mandrake 7.1 ...
Could someone even at Mandrake try this... I have a bunch of things Ilike to tune
into on occasion... some work, some dont...
Ive tried a few things including:
1) changing transport to TCP
2) tried deleting my directory and letting netscape and Real player install
defaults..
3) tried copying stuff over from Mandrake 7.0 drive since I know it works on there
.
4) tried installing an old version of both netscape and real player
HELP!!!!!! anyone who might be able to figure this out would help my sanity since
I cant seem to troubleshoot this one effectively.
Werner
Traci Collins wrote:
> Have you setup RealPlayer to use TCP exclusively? By default
> Realplayer will sometimes attempt to use UDP for connections because
> it does less handshaking and may therefore stream more effectively.
> If you have any trouble between you and the site you are connecting
> to the lack of handshaking can keep your connection from functioning
> at all. Once Real told me to try out forcing my player to always use
> TCP the reliability of my connections went up dramatically. Something
> to try if you haven't already tried it.
>
> Traci
>
> "Werner E. Niebel" wrote:
> >
> > James,
> >
> > I agree with much of your accessment. OK here is the weird thing... When I
> > upgraded to Mandrake 7.1 this only started happenning... Yesterday I tried to
> > connect to Dr Dean Edel and then could not .. I quick rebooted and tried in
> > Mandrake 7.0 (since I installed them on separte partitions) and I could reboot
> > in 7.0... It seems to either be a Mandrake 7.1 problem or Netscape or
> > something I had in configuration that got overwritten. Im trying to
> > troubleshoot this but it only has a problem with real time streams... I can
> > connect to businesstalkradio fine yet other sites I cant. Incidentally if I
> > try to get Dr Dean archives it works fine.. Its only with some real time
> > streams...
> >
> > Any additional advice you or anyone has would be appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Werner
> >
> > James Sparenberg wrote:
> >
> > > Werner,
> > > There could be a couple of reasons that you can't connect and they
> > > aren't your fault. Since you can connect to the one site that indicates
> > > that your set up correctly (however this could be a bad assumption on my
> > > part I really doubt if it is.)
> > > 1. Rush's site is so slow or overloaded at the time you are trying to
> > > connect that it's just taking forever for RPlayer to get the data it needs
> > > and it's timing out or freezing.
> > > 2. The webmaster at rushes site made a typo on the page and as a result
> > > it can't connect correctly.
> > > 3. Since realplayer for linux is in a state of perpetual beta testing it
> > > could be unable to connect due to some weird Windoze only feature the
> > > webmaster has enacted.
> > > 4. The people at Real.com are liberals and they have added software to
> > > block Rush. :)
> > >
> > > Hope this helps.
> > >
> > > James
> > >
> > > At 10:46 AM 6/22/00, you wrote:
> > > >Hi there,
> > > >
> > > >I had real player working and dont know what is going on in 7.1. If I
> > > >go to a site like
> > > >
> > > >www.businesstalkradio.net and try to listen it works fine with the
> > > >streaming audio...When I go to something like
> > > >
> > > >www.rushlimbaugh.com
> > > >
> > > >it doesnt work... Real player executes and says "contacting" forever yet
> > > >never gets the stream...Anyone out there know what the netscape file
> > > >structure and plugins well enough to help me out diagnose what is
> > > >wrong...
> > > >
> > > >Thanks
> > > >
> > > >Werner
>
> --
> Traci Collins, MA
> Professor of Computer Education
> Colorado Mountain College
> http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
