Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 12:35:03 -0700
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Shannon Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RedHat 6.0 Live Encoding
Gordon,
You should also check for these other common problems with capturing sound
and video.
1. Hardware installed, but devices not created (see
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt and "man mknod")
2. Insufficient permission on devices.
3. Video or audio drivers not loaded (assuming you compiled the drivers as
modules). Use "lsmod" to display the currently loaded drivers.
and finally ...
4. Device in use. It sounds like you might have a process that is already
using your sound card. Have you tried running "fuser /dev/dsp"?
As for the server problems - it's best to always verify with a live to file
encode that you are getting audio and/or video first. Have you successfully
used this same server in the past? By nothing do you mean that the
RealPlayer connects successfully and then just plays black, or that the
RealPlayer doesn't connect at all? Does the RealServer admin pages show the
RealProducer connection?
At 09:07 AM 8/24/99 -0700, you wrote:
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>Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 11:40:45 -0400
>From: Lamar Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: RedHat 6.0 Live Encoding
>
>> From: Gordon Harty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: RedHat 6.0 Live Encoding
>> I have search all over the web for information on how to get live encoding
>> going on Linux. RealMedia sold me the encoding software but doesn't
>> really give instructions on how to get it going on Linux.
>Yeah, I ran into that problem two years ago....
>> I have the encoding software coming up but it can't find the audio device
>> and I'm not really sure what it is doing with the video. If I run it
>> with just video, the encoder runs but I don't get any output from the
>> server.
>Have you run sndconfig to set up the sound card? There is a list of
>audio devices in the docs -- unfortunately, since Real hasn't released
>(AFAIK) a RH6-certified RealProducerPlus, I haven't moved to G2, nor
>have I moved from RH 5.2 to RH6. I am currently running RealAudio
>Server 3.0 with its encoder on RH 5.2 -- and that combination is solid
>as a rock.
>> Does anyone have a setup similar to this going? What drivers, settings,
>> etc. were needed to get it to work?
>As I said, my setup (which has served me very well) is RH5.2 plus
>RealAudio Server 3.0 + raenc 3.0. Haven't moved to G2+RH6+RP+ as of
>yet. I did have to recompile my kernel due to an obscure sound driver
>bug related to my motherboard's chipset, but that wasn't a big deal.
>Lamar Owen
>WGCR Internet Radio
>Linux+RealAudio since May 1997.
