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Re: realaudio with 2.2.2



I have been running frozen for several months.  As an example of a site
which loads but doesn't play:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/news/summary.ram

On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Joey Hess wrote:

> Upgrade to frozen.,
> 
> Bob Nielsen wrote:
> > I've been using the rvplayer debian package all along.  As I mentioned,
> > since 2.2, it does work some of the time, but some sites just won't play
> > at all (they work with 2.0.36 however).
> > 
> > Bob
> > 
> > On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Joey Hess wrote:
> > 
> > > Use rvplayer.deb installer. It has the wrapper built in. Problem solved,
> > > painlessly.
> > > 
> > > Jonathan Guthrie wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> > > > > > The problem is that the real player relies upon broken sound system
> > > > > > drivers.  There is a library that emulates the broken driver called
> > > > > > rpopen.tar.gz.  Have you tried that?
> > > >  
> > > > > Do you have a URL for this?
> > > > 
> > > > Oh, I have no idea where it came from.  ISTR that I found it a couple of
> > > > weeks (perhaps a month) ago using a DejaNews search.  A quick check of the
> > > > source (it's GPLed) shows that the author doesn't take credit for this
> > > > work, so you can't get it that way.
> > > > 
> > > > However, since it's only 8k long and since it's GPLed, I put it on my
> > > > personal Web site.  http://www.brokersys.com/~jguthrie/rpopen.tar.gz
> > > > There are no links to it or anything, you have to just know it's there.
> > > > 
> > > > While you're at it, you can check out my 100 bottles of beer on the wall
> > > > page at http://www.brokersys.com/~jguthrie/beer.php3
> > > > -- 
> > > > Jonathan Guthrie (jguthrie@brokersys.com)
> > > > Brokersys  +281-895-8101   http://www.brokersys.com/
> > > > 12703 Veterans Memorial #106, Houston, TX  77014, USA
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > -- 
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> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > see shy jo
> > > 
> > 
> > ----
> > Bob Nielsen                 Internet: nielsen@primenet.com
> > Tucson, AZ                  AMPRnet:  w6swe@w6swe.ampr.org
> > DM42nh                      http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
> 
> -- 
> see shy jo
> 

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Bob Nielsen                 Internet: nielsen@primenet.com
Tucson, AZ                  AMPRnet:  w6swe@w6swe.ampr.org
DM42nh                      http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen


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