No sound in RealPlayer 11.

[popatopalous]

For people like me that have had problems using RealPlayer on sites like:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/i/

and most especially:

http://www.rte.ie/radio/index.html

RealPlayer 11 for Linux is now available at:

http://www.real.com/linux

Currently in Fedora x86_64>Firefox with browser plugins enabled both of those links will open RealPlayer. Unfortunately there is no sound. I'll get to the sound issue in Fedora later. In Suse both sites open with sound so it should be fixable problem.

[mbokil]

Does it play nicely now with Pulseaudio? It is amazing how Flash content has taken over streams and video. I used to use Realplayer all the time for listening to streaming radio and watching videocasts. It think around the time youtube really began to take over I lost interest in it. I downloaded and installed it. Seems pretty nice. The only thing it is missing is pulseaudio output plugin.

[JohnVV]

well for the bbc at least mplayer-plugin for Mozilla seamonkey works fine for me and works nicely with pulse audio

[popatopalous]

I am trying to get sound in RealPlayer 11 to work. Specifically embedded media in Firefox. Doesn't matter if I'm regular user or root if I try to listen here:

http://www.rte.ie/radio/index.html

RealPlayer opens and plays but there is no sound. It is different from RealPlayer 10 and the usual tricks used to get sound in 10 don't seem to work. I've been searching Fedora forum and Google I haven't found anything yet. For one it now uses alsa for default sound not oss. Any ideas on how to trouble shoot this?

[leigh123linux]

Threads merged , Please don't double post !!

[popatopalous]

Sorry didn't know I was...

[popatopalous]

This is weird but may indicate where the problem lies. If I bo here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/i/

and select what I want to listen to realplayer will open and play with no sound. If I then select to "launch in stand alone player" it launches realplayer and does 'cache fill' [slowly] and eventually will play the stream WITH SOUND!

So obviously there is sound in RealPlayer. Problem must be how it is functioning as a plugin in Firefox.

Edit: Popatopalous you crazy old man the reason you had sound was because Realplayer wasn't playing it was MPlayer.

[popatopalous]

Here's terminal output when I try to play something:

$ realplay

(realplay.bin:3525): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "nodoka",
ALSA lib pcm.c:2106:(snd_pcm_open_conf) Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so
ALSA lib pcm.c:2106:(snd_pcm_open_conf) Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so
ALSA lib pcm.c:2106:(snd_pcm_open_conf) Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so
ALSA lib pcm.c:2106:(snd_pcm_open_conf) Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so
ALSA lib pcm.c:2106:(snd_pcm_open_conf) Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so
...

So what do I need to fix it?

[popatopalous]

I admit I'm baffled. In Fedora 8 AMD 64 using KDE I have sound except [as far as I know] in RealPlayer 11. In Firefox I have RealPlayer plugins enabled when I go to:

http://www.rte.ie/radio/index.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/i/

RealPlayer opens and plays but with no sound. I do have sound in Flash [You Tube] and mplayer [Apple Movie Trailers] as well as in kde.

Here's some info I gathered while searching forums:

If I select to play streaming audio at bbc.com and run:

# lsof | grep dsp
npviewer. 7485       ben  mem       REG                8,7    11124    2784367 /usr/lib/libartsdsp.so.0.0.0
npviewer. 7519       ben  mem       REG                8,7    11124    2784367 /usr/lib/libartsdsp.so.0.0.0
# lsof | grep pcm
artsd     6646       ben  mem       REG                8,7    24032    2905290 /usr/lib64/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so
realplay. 7539       ben  mem       REG                8,7   103076    3430991 /opt/real/RealPlayer/plugins/pcmrend.so

I don't know what this means though?

Some more:

system-config-soundcard

does not play guitar chords in KDE but does in Gnome. Test Sound in KCC>Sound System>General does play sound though. Not sure if this means anything?

# alsamixer

opens mixer with ONLY Master Volume control. It lists:

Card: PulseAudio
Chip: PulseAudio
View: [Playback] Capture All
Item: Master

Master is, of course, unmuted and set to 71.

# rpm -qa | grep alsa
alsa-plugins-oss-1.0.15-3.fc8.1
alsa-lib-1.0.15-1.fc8
alsa-oss-devel-1.0.14-3.fc8
alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.15-3.fc8.1
alsa-lib-1.0.15-1.fc8
alsa-oss-libs-1.0.14-3.fc8
alsamixergui-0.9.0-0.3.rc1.fc8.2
bluez-utils-alsa-3.20-6.fc8
alsa-oss-1.0.14-3.fc8
alsa-utils-1.0.15-1.fc8
alsa-oss-devel-1.0.14-3.fc8
alsa-tools-1.0.12-4.fc7
alsa-oss-libs-1.0.14-3.fc8

# rpm -qa | grep pulseaudio
pulseaudio-module-x11-0.9.8-5.fc8
alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.15-3.fc8.1
pulseaudio-0.9.8-5.fc8
pulseaudio-libs-glib2-0.9.8-5.fc8
pulseaudio-core-libs-0.9.8-5.fc8
akode-pulseaudio-2.0.2-4.fc8
kde-settings-pulseaudio-3.5-38.fc8
pulseaudio-utils-0.9.8-5.fc8
pulseaudio-esound-compat-0.9.8-5.fc8
pulseaudio-module-gconf-0.9.8-5.fc8
pulseaudio-libs-0.9.8-5.fc8
pulseaudio-libs-0.9.8-5.fc8

# lsmod | grep snd
snd_hda_intel         391145  4
snd_seq_dummy          11589  0
snd_seq_oss            38721  0
snd_seq_midi_event     15041  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                60769  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device         15445  3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss            52545  0
snd_mixer_oss          23233  2 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                87241  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              28873  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc         16721  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
snd_hwdep              16457  1 snd_hda_intel
snd                    65129  16 snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwdep
soundcore              15073  2 snd

# uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.24.4-64.fc8 #1 SMP Sat Mar 29 09:15:49 EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

# pulseaudio --dump-modules
module-alsa-sink                        n/a
module-alsa-source                      n/a
module-cli                              n/a
module-cli-protocol-tcp                 n/a
module-cli-protocol-unix                n/a
module-combine                          n/a
module-default-device-restore           n/a
module-detect                           n/a
module-esound-compat-spawnfd            n/a
module-esound-compat-spawnpid           n/a
module-esound-protocol-tcp              n/a
module-esound-protocol-unix             n/a
module-esound-sink                      n/a
module-gconf                            n/a
module-hal-detect                       n/a
module-http-protocol-tcp                n/a
module-http-protocol-unix               n/a
module-ladspa-sink                      n/a
module-match                            n/a
module-mmkbd-evdev                      n/a
module-native-protocol-fd               n/a
module-native-protocol-tcp              n/a
module-native-protocol-unix             n/a
module-null-sink                        n/a
module-oss                              n/a
module-pipe-sink                        n/a
module-pipe-source                      n/a
module-remap-sink                       n/a
module-rescue-streams                   n/a
module-rtp-recv                         n/a
module-rtp-send                         n/a
module-simple-protocol-tcp              n/a
module-simple-protocol-unix             n/a
module-sine                             n/a
module-suspend-on-idle                  n/a
module-tunnel-sink                      n/a
module-tunnel-source                    n/a
module-volume-restore                   n/a
module-x11-bell                         n/a
module-x11-publish                      n/a
module-x11-xsmp                         n/a

How can I troubleshoot/fix this? I would like to first figure out if this is a Fedora, or alsa, or pulseaudio, or kde problem? Or is it a RealPlayer problem? FWIW I DO have RealPlayer working [with sound!] on my other 4 distros. Also, by all means, let me know of any other info or tests that would help solve this.

[popatopalous]

And there's more. I downloaded some music videos with Azureus. If I try to open them with RealPlayer 11 they won't open because I don't have 'asx'. If I open them in Kaffeine it promptly crashes. If I open them in MPlayer they open and play with sound but there is an error message:

Error!
[AO_ALSA] Unable to find simple control 'PCM', 0.

[leigh123linux]

Have you tried installing


alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i386


You will need to manually fetch it from the i386 repo ! as it isn't available through yum . ( I run 64 bit and had to do this to get zattoo sound to work )


For mplayer try changing the audio setting for driver to pulseaudio !

[popatopalous]

Have you tried installing


alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i386


You will need to manually fetch it from the i386 repo ! as it isn't available through yum . ( I run 64 bit and had to do this to get zattoo sound to work )


For mplayer try changing the audio setting for driver to pulseaudio !

Where do I get 'alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i386'?

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/

Won't let me login with my Fedora uname and pw and offers no option to register. It keeps sending me in circles and can't find any real package.

[popatopalous]

I guess I'm all confused. Even if you can find i386 packages which I couldn't through Google or Fedora Project. Hint:

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu...6/os/Packages/

Then when I go to install the package I get:

# rpm -ihv alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.14-5.fc8.i386.rpm
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
        package alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.15-3.fc8.1.x86_64 (which is newer than alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.14-5.fc8.i386) is already installed
        file /etc/alsa/pulse-default.conf from install of alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.14-5.fc8.i386 conflicts with file from package alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.15-3.fc8.1.x86_64

This is getting to be irritating.

[popatopalous]

Have you tried installing


alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i386


You will need to manually fetch it from the i386 repo ! as it isn't available through yum . ( I run 64 bit and had to do this to get zattoo sound to work )


For mplayer try changing the audio setting for driver to pulseaudio !

Your hint on MPlayer did work thanks. To freakin bad I can't figure out how to install 'alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i386'. This has become frustrating.

[leigh123linux]

Your hint on MPlayer did work thanks. To freakin bad I can't figure out how to install 'alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i386'. This has become frustrating.

Try the updated version

su -
rpm -ivh http://fedora.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/fedora/linux/updates/8/i386/alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.15-3.fc8.1.i386.rpm