Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 20:26:10 -0500 From: Jim Durham <durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> To: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: realaudio player Message-ID: <32DAE0B2.41C67EA6@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> References: <199701130241.SAA11068@bubba.whistle.com>
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Archie Cobbs wrote: > > > > I downloaded the realaudio player and can play welcome.ra, but > > > when launched from netscape, it starts downloading but then > > > fails with the error "cannot open audio device" ... > > > > > > Does this sound familiar to anyone? > > > > Sure does. I have the same results here, but not with all sites. > > Sometimes it works. I notice it *always* plays the commercial on > > the online radio feeds, but fails on the music 8-) . > > That's pretty weird/suspicious :-) Could you send me an url that > works for you so I can try it? > > > There is also a message saying to check the error number (I believe it's > > 50) at the realaudio site, but I haven't done this yet. > > I tried this; there's only windows and mac information there, and > there's not much of it anyway. > Try www.audionet.com . Try the listing of online radio stations. Some work for me. Others fail in various ways, most ofter the "can't open audio device" problem. I have a guess. /dev/audio can't be opened twice. If you "click on" the "listen" button on one of these radio station pages, you first get a commercial from audionet. This plays always. Then, it goes to the on-line feed of the radio station and bombs with the "can't open audio device" error. My guess is that the device is not closed from the first cut somehow. When it tries to open it for the second "cut", it bombs with that error. It may be that the close is too slow and that the open for the second part comes before /dev/audio is closed. Sometimes I have been able to try again for the second part and get it to work, even after getting the error message. If this seems to be a widespread problem, perhaps we could send a common e-mail to the realaudio folks about it. I have done this regarding problems with the realaudio encoder for FreeBSD. While they haven't fixed it yet(I think), they have responded several times, sometimes at their own instigation. That's hopeful. -Jim Durham
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