On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 08:23:37AM -0500, Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong wrote: > >>>>> "Bruno" == Bruno Boettcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 02:25:36PM +0200, Lepus wrote: > >> I have installed Realplayer 7 on my Linux box, running Potato > >> with ALSA > > am using woody with oss and i noticed this problem too, > > interestingly the realplayer doesn't work when i change the > > preferences.... i tryed first esd with no succes and the warning > > that another device is accessing the audio device and the oss > > which resultet in very slow motion with videos... > > > so me too i would be interested in the causes and a possible > > fix, since it is quite annoying to have to stop and restart > > esd... > > A way to get around it at the moment is to just "esdctl off" when you > need Realplayer, and then "esdctl on" to turn ESD back on. You can > also put "esddsp realplayer %s" in the helper application prefrences.
It goes without saying that this can be incorporated into a script wrapper for invoking realplayer: #!/bin/bash esdctl off /opt/RealPlayer7/realplay $* # substitute appropriate path edsctl on -- Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/