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Date:      Thu, 8 Nov 2001 05:38:55 -0500 (EST)
From:      Ada Cheng <acheng@e-math.ams.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RealPlayer8 G2 crashes with netscape after about 1/2 a minute
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.95q.1011108051958.6219E-100000@nova.kettering.edu>

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Good morning everyone,
	I just installed linux realplayer8 on my new machine at school.
(Pent. Xeon with dual 1.5 G processor).  I have also installed linux
netscape47 communicator.  While listening to streaming audio, realplayer
will come out and play for approximately 1/2 minute. (actually 36.9sec to
be exact)  The audio was streaming in at 44.1kbps. After playing
for 36.9sec, it indicates they are buffering and then the realplayer
window will disappear.  

I notice that some other people have the same problem while searching the
mailing list archives and someone suggest doing a df while the system is
running to see what's happening.  One indicates that 'the problem was
because realplayer created a file in /tmp to store the entire stream.
/tmp filled up.'  

I did df while real audio is running and all I saw was
Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/da0s1a     99183    43677    47572    48%    /
/dev/da0s1f  15074275  1519112 12349221    11%    /usr
/dev/da0s1e     19815     4711    13519    26%    /var
procfs              4        4        0   100%    /proc

and it didn't change the entire time realplayer was running.

I did went to the /tmp directory and notice the creation of this file
-rw-------   1 acheng  wheel   206 Nov  8 05:29 MO3BEA5E980050FAB.ram 


I then proceed to do ps and saw the following:
4067  p6  S      0:00.73 /usr/local/lib/RealPlayer8/realplay /tmp/MO3BEA5F740070FAB.ram
4068  p6  S      0:00.00 /usr/local/lib/RealPlayer8/realplay /tmp/MO3BEA5F740070FAB.ram
4069  p6  S      0:00.00 /usr/local/lib/RealPlayer8/realplay /tmp/MO3BEA5F740070FAB.ram
4070  p6  S      0:00.00 /usr/local/lib/RealPlayer8/realplay /tmp/MO3BEA5F740070FAB.ram
4071  p6  S      0:00.04 /usr/local/lib/RealPlayer8/realplay /tmp/MO3BEA5F740070FAB.ram
4072  p6  S      0:00.01 /usr/local/lib/RealPlayer8/realplay /tmp/MO3BEA5F740070FAB.ram
4073  p6  S      0:00.00 /usr/local/lib/RealPlayer8/realplay /tmp/MO3BEA5F740070FAB.ram

So I guess I am having the same problem.    No solution was posted as far
as I can tell.

Does anyone know how to fix it? 
Many thanks in advance.

Ada



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