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Date:      Sun, 5 Nov 2000 22:37:29 -0600
From:      Dave Uhring <duhring@charter.net>
To:        Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RealPlayer7 and sound on 4.1-RELEASE?
Message-ID:  <00110522372900.00222@dave.uhring.com>
In-Reply-To: <200011060358.WAA48804@lakes.dignus.com>
References:  <200011060358.WAA48804@lakes.dignus.com>

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On Sunday 05 November 2000 21:58, Thomas David Rivers wrote:
> Has anyone been successful with 4.1-RELEASE, RealPlayer7
> and sound?
>
> I'm away-from-home, and it would be really nice to listen
> to WCPE (see http://www.wcpe.org) from the web.... I've got
> a wonderful ethernet connection in this hotel.
>
> I downloaded RealPlayer7 from www.real.com - got it installed
> (after grabbing bzip2 from freebsd.org), but, all I seem
> to get from the sound system is static (pretty much white noise.)
>
> I can play a .au file just fine, so the machine seems to be
> able to handle sound... (i.e. it's configured correctly, the
> sound card works, a cat of a .au file causes some pleasant-enough
> sounds from the speakers, etc...)
>
> Just wondering if anyone has been successful...
>
> 	  - Thanks -
> 	- Dave Rivers -

Build the port /usr/ports/audio/linux-realplayer.  It works just fine.  
But I'm afraid that you'll have trouble getting WCPE; I keep getting an 
error when trying to connect to them.

Dave


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