I have installed Realplayer 7 on my Linux box, running Potato with ALSA sound. But it works kind of weird, as when I try to play something on it, I get an error message "Cannot open the audio device. Another application may be using it". If I then wait about five seconds not doing anything, and try again, it works fine. If I run Realplayer as root, this problem doesn't occour. (I AM in the Audio group as a user) I thought maybe this is because the sound devices are used by esound, (this is a bit awkward too, because my Esound uses the ALSA interface, and I think Realplayer uses the OSS emulation, and even when playing a sound, the WM sounds going through Esound can still be heard) the output device in the Preferences window of Realplayer to "Esound support". But so, even though Esound _IS_ running, like this it doesn't work at all! This bug is more of a little annoyance than a real problem, but I am really curious what the cause could be...
Daniel Szabo