From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sun Jan 12 18:42:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id SAA13324 for multimedia-outgoing; Sun, 12 Jan 1997 18:42:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from whistle.com (s205m131.whistle.com [207.76.205.131]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id SAA13317 for ; Sun, 12 Jan 1997 18:42:13 -0800 (PST) Received: (from smap@localhost) by whistle.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id SAA19339; Sun, 12 Jan 1997 18:41:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from bubba.whistle.com(207.76.205.7) by whistle.com via smap (V1.3) id sma019337; Sun Jan 12 18:41:17 1997 Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.whistle.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id SAA11068; Sun, 12 Jan 1997 18:41:17 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <199701130241.SAA11068@bubba.whistle.com> Subject: Re: realaudio player In-Reply-To: <32D86A8F.237C228A@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> from Jim Durham at "Jan 11, 97 11:37:35 pm" To: durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us (Jim Durham) Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 18:41:17 -0800 (PST) Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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. Thanks, -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com