On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 12:34 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Does RealPlayer use its own sound module? > > I'm running Fedora-4 with linux-2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 , > and I'm quite baffled by the sound setup. > Sometimes it works and sometimes it does not. > I have tried changing settings in alsamixer, > and this sometimes seems to work, and sometimes does not. > > But RealPlayer10 seems to work fine. > > Actually, after leaving RealPlayer10, > sound seems to be restored, as heard when clicking "Play test sound" in > System Settings=>Soundcard Detection . > > Incidentally, is that the best way to test sound? > Would "cat <sound file> > /dev/dsp" be a more reliable test? > > Probably not relevant, but the sound system in my laptop > is Yamaha YMF-754 [DS-1E Audio Controller] > and the kernel uses the snd-ymfpci module . > > > -- > Timothy Murphy > e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie > tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 > s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland > Hi. This won't help you (sorry), but it might help others. For me, RealPlayer fails to play video at all. For me, disabling XVideo under the Hardware preferences tab fixed it.
