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Date:      Wed, 28 Nov 2001 10:04:21 -0700
From:      Scott Long <scott_long@btc.adaptec.com>
To:        Sean LeBlanc <seanleblanc@home.com>
Cc:        freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Realplayer on FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20011128100421.C16800@hollin.btc.adaptec.com>
In-Reply-To: <20011128100637.C5421@hostwiththemost>
References:  <20011127210010.A3093@hostwiththemost> <20011128081742.A56409@blackhelicopters.org> <20011128100637.C5421@hostwiththemost>

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Can you post the results of 'cat /dev/sndstat'?  I suspect that your
sound card only has one playback channel, so the KDE sound server, xmms,
RealPlayer, etc, are all competing for that one channel.

Scott

On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 10:06:37AM -0700, Sean LeBlanc wrote:
> On 11-28 08:17, Michael Lucas wrote:
> > Okay, dumb question time...
> > 
> > Can you play sound from other sources, i.e., CD/MP3 players?
> 
> Okay, now this question and other circumstances spurs on some more
> questions:
> 
> 1. I can't mount an audio CD. I can mount data CDs fine.I get this when I
> try to mount audio CD:
> cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Invalid argument
> 2. NOW RealPlayer is working...but KDE sounds are not??? I have
> absolutely no idea why this is going on. XMMS still produces sounds. The
> only thing I did since yesterday was exit X windows, and shutdown. This
> morning, I just started up box, and ran startx. Nothing special. Before I
> left X last night KDE sounds were working, and RealPlayer was silent.
> 
> Like I said prior, I can play XMMS stuff...never had a problem with that
> once I had soundcard working.
> 
> > 
> > On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 09:00:10PM -0700, Sean LeBlanc wrote:
> > > I'm trying to get RealPlayer working with Mozilla and/or Netscape. At one
> > > point (yesterday) I *had* it working...now I just get picture with no audio
> > > or nothing (if the content was audio only) at all. This happens from from
> > > both Netscape and Mozilla. I have no idea what happened. Mute isn't set on
> > > it, volume bar is up and other sounds are still working (KDE sounds & XMMS,
> > > anyway).
> 
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