thanks for the help. here is the link created by the shell script. http://pastebin.ca/1029891 i did not disable pulseaudio, because OSS works well enough for my purposes and according to http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f9.html#mediaplayers audio should be set to pulse if alsa returns an error. -----Original Message----- >From: stan <goedigi89__e@xxxxxxx> >Sent: May 25, 2008 6:57 PM >To: joelvsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, For users of Fedora <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> >Subject: Re: realplayer, streams blocked in fedora 9 > >joelvsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> I am running Fedora 9 and I have been trying to use realplayer 11 and kaffeine to play streams. after disabling the firewall and selinux i still cannot remedy the problem. >> >> >[snip] >> >> I have looked at >> >> system -> preferences -> hardware -> sound and volume control >> >> everything is unmuted. >> >> the only thing that seems weird is that the >> system -> preferences -> hardware -> sound -> sound capture -> test does not produce a sound. >> >> is there something i am missing here that is interfering with realplayer and other streams from working. kaffeine makes contact with an internet radio stream but there is no sound. i believe i tried to get mplayer to play at the stream as well. >> >> --- >> >> I just found some notes about mplayer and fedora 9 which suggested that mplayer should be configured with pulse audio and not alsa. i changed real player to use OSS and not alsa and now it works... but it seems to me that oss sounds more muddy than the default sound system. >> >> is there any way to improve the sound quality? >> >> > >Configuration issues. The fact you can play through OSS says that alsa >is working fine because OSS is now just an emulation level running on >top of alsa. That is probably why it doesn't sound as good, one more >layer of processing. > >As far as configuration goes, any sound server you have running will >block alsa apps from connecting. I doubt it will help much, but could >you run the script at this location >http://hg.alsa-project.org/alsa/raw-file/tip/alsa-info.sh >and then post back the link so that people can see your sound setup? >The script scans your machine and extracts out things relevant for >diagnosis and puts them on a website. It gives you a link to the >information that you can post here. > >You can try removing the package pulseaudio-alsa and see if realplayer >will then play through alsa. That should improve your sound quality. >But if realplayer has a plugin for pulseaudio, and pulseaudio is >running, it should have played when you used the pulseaudio plugin. > > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
