To Benjamin & all,
To supplement what I wrote, I should mention that after installing
RealPlayer, I was getting video just fine, but no audio whatsoever. Note
that previously I had only played music Cd's on this system which worked
and continued working no problem. The problem/solution for RealPlayer was
my aumix mixer settings. Here's the details: in aumix, for music CD's, the
following parameters were sufficient *and* necessary (with and SB Live!
Value):
PCM,
CD,
Digital 2.
For RealPlayer, the following parameters were *all* necessary:
Vol,
PCM,
CD,
Line 2,
Line 3,
Digital 2.
I imagine this would vary with different cards/drivers, but's that's the
way it is on my system. If in doubt, simply turn everything up (which
should get you sound), then selectively turn parameters off. Of course,
once you get it working and save the mixer settings, you no longer need
to launch the mixer front end. Now hopefully this can be your one-stop
shopping spot for a RealPlayer8 install.
Dave.
On 28-Mar-2001 Dave wrote:
> Benjamin,
>
>>1) You refer to "security fixes". Which ones? Am I supposed to download
>>them?
>
> Well, these are the standard Mandrake updates from their security
> updates page. Since the CD release I count a good 114 updated packages
> on my system! I sure as hell hope you keep your box updated.
> Subscribing to Mandrake's security-announce list will give you a head's
> up on these fixes as they become available.
>
>>2) Why is the --ignorearch argument not even mentioned in my Linux
>>Reference book (Linux in a Nutshell, 2nd edition)?
>
> No doubt because it would take a whole book to cover RPM completely. A
> man rpm does show the command.
>
>>Does RealPlayer8.rpm install the plugins correctly and will they play
>>embedded files correctly.
>
> No problem here. I just installed it as root, and it automatically
> installed all the necessary files in both root's home dir and the
> user's home dir. It also left both a mimeinstall.log and
> plugininstall.log files in all the user's home dirs.
>
> I was just at Real's unix forum ... to get there you have to start the
> RP8 Basic selection, but there's *no* need to enter your name or email
> address to read the posts. Just select Unix and a new page will pop-up
> on which there is a link to the "community supported Unix forum". You
> are correct that the Real support people said to use the --ignorearch
> switch ... the reason being that they screwed up the rpm: they set the
> arch flag for i686 and compiled against i386. This info was in the
> second thread "no i386 file to download". But elswhere, and I can't
> quite find it anymore, I'm certain that they said they fixed the RPM.
> Regardless, I did not use the --ignorearch swith and all went fine.
>
> Only one caveat: Although I was able to play ram and wav files, I was
> not able to play pls files .... frankly I didn't know about these until
> I went to www.live365.com. This was fixed by going into Netscape
> preferences => applications and adding:
> Description: audio/x-scpls
> Mime type: audio/x-scpls
> Suffixes: pls
> Application: /usr/lib/RealPlayer8/realplay "%u"
>
> So now, evething I've tried works ... sound, movie traillers, etc.
> Also, if you do an rpm -Uvh --test blah and it doesn't work, I doubt
> there would be any harm in trying the --ignorearch switch ... the rpm
> is built for the i386 architecture ... it's just the arch flag they
> fudged.
>
> Peace
> Dave.
>
>
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