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Date:      Thu, 22 Jan 1998 22:46:24 -0500
From:      Adam McDougall <mcdougall@ameritech.net>
To:        multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: rvplayer running full out but not moving
Message-ID:  <34C81290.3CED7AE5@ameritech.net>
References:  <19980117194956.42276@top.worldcontrol.com>

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brian@worldcontrol.com wrote:

> Ok, I cvsup'd, maked world, etc.  Everything is up to the minute
> -current.
>
> Now 'rvplayer welcome.rm'  displays the RealPlayer Window and the
> very first scene of the sequence.  There is no sound.  The rvplayer
> is running all out consuming CPU time:
>

Are you sure you have the proper permissions to the sound device?  try it as root.  I found that if sound
itsnt working, it doesnt wanna advance the movie like you said was happening.

>   289 brian     82   0  1924K  2236K RUN     31:05 81.10% 81.10% rvplayer
>
> but nothing is changing on the screen.  I can use the location pointer
> to move about the sequence manually and the picture changes
> appropriately.  When I hit the stop button I get a burst of hiss.
> If I hit start again, its get stuck at the first scene. If i hit
> stop I get the burst of hiss again, and so on.
>
> cat ring.au or whatever to /dev/audio does what I would expect.
>
> following is the output from cat /dev/sndstat.
>
> The all out running without doing anything seems vaguely reminiscient of
> a problem I ran into with qmail.  When I upgraded to some version of
> -current I found qmail-send running all out but otherwise working.  I
> recompiled qmail and the behavior went away.
>
> If I rm /dev/dsp /dev/audio I get the same behavior out of rvplayer
> except it isn't running all out.  It is still stuck, but spends its
> time in select.
>
> Any ideas what is going on?
>
> VoxWare Sound Driver:3.5-alpha15-970902 (Wed Aug  6 22:58:35 PDT 1997 Amancio Hasty@rah.star-gate.com)
> Config options:
>
> Installed drivers:
> Type 1: OPL-2/OPL-3 FM
> Type 2: SoundBlaster
> Type 6: SoundBlaster16
> Type 7: SB16 MIDI
>
> Card config:
> SoundBlaster at 0x220 irq 5 drq 1
> (SoundBlaster16 at 0xffffffff irq 1 drq 5)
> (SB16 MIDI at 0x330 irq 1)
> OPL-2/OPL-3 FM at 0x388 irq 1
>
> Audio devices:
> 0: SoundBlaster Pro 3.1
>
> Synth devices:
> 0: Yamaha OPL-3
>
> Midi devices:
> 0: SoundBlaster
>
> Timers:
> 0: System clock
>
> Mixers:
> 0: SoundBlaster
>
> --
> Brian Litzinger <brian@worldcontrol.com>






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