Date: 12 May 1998 09:33 EDT From: "Wyatt Nordstrom" <wyattn@nortel.ca> To: bengan@sunet.se Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Real Audio Message-ID: <199805121335.GAA01975@hub.freebsd.org>
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In message "Real Audio", bengan@sunet.se writes: > On Fri, May 08, 1998 at 03:46:21PM +0000, eT wrote: > > Wyatt Nordstrom wrote: > > > > > Just a quick note on this topic. The posts got my curiosity up. I > > > downloaded and installed the real audio player version 3.0 last > > > night. Seemed to work well, except for my cheap sound card. Guess I'll > > > upgrade today. Anyways, I noticed that a lot of the Internet only > > > radio sites require the real audio player version 5.0. So, I travel > > > back to the real audio home page, and try to get the 5.0 version. It > > > appears that real audio has determined that for whatever reason, they > > > are not supporting real audio above version 3.0 for UNIX systems. This > > > is awfull. Of course, they offer the full complimentary ports for the > > > windows NT/95/3.1 family of operating systems. > > > > I also did the same research as you, but I found that version 5 HAS been ported to > > Linux. I downloaded the rv50_linux file and got it to run on my 2.2.6-STABLE > > using linux_lib. Only bummer was that I could not hear any sound... i.e. the > > player's little marker wasn't moving accross the horizontal bar. > > > > Any reason why this was happening.. I have a cheap ASOUND btw. > > The same for me. The message I got from RA5.0 was: you don't have the > right codec for this. I actually stoped there. I don't have the time to > debug this anymore. But I do have time to complain to the support or > whatever they're calling themselfs. To contact realaudio you should fill > in a stupid FORM on the www.real.com. You can also try the DNS > registration email. Or you could try info@realaudio.com, > hostmaster@realaudio.com, postmaster@realaudio.com. I do belive we should > point out that we are a bunch of users who want this service. > > > I agree one hundred percent. If we do not let real audio know, they will never support UNIX versions greater than 3.0. I hate to see us (FreeBSD users) miss out on some of this new technology. I find it hard to imagine that they probably use some UNIX version to create their product for win platforms, and they do not bother to support the UNIX versions. I for one, would be willing to pay the 29 dollar fee, for the audio pro 5.0. > Progressive Networks, Inc. (REALAUDIO-DOM) > 616 First Avenue, Suite 701 > Seattle, WA 98104 > > Domain Name: REALAUDIO.COM > > Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact: > Black, Jerry Glomph Director Internet & Tec, nical Oper [tions] > (JB843) black@PROGNET.COM > 206-674-2243 ext. 243 (FAX) 206-674-3588 > Billing Contact: > Black, Jerry Glomph Director Internet & Tec, nical Oper [tions] > (JB843) black@PROGNET.COM > 206-674-2243 ext. 243 (FAX) 206-674-3588 > > Record last updated on 24-Nov-95. > Record created on 07-Nov-94. > Database last updated on 11-May-98 03:39:51 EDT. > > Domain servers in listed order: > > DNS.PROGNET.COM 205.219.198.34 > DNS-1.PROGNET.COM 204.71.154.5 > > As for the questions about running real audio under LINUX emulation, I do not. I opted to stick with the version 3.0 for FreeBSD. This works well for me. I had problems when I first set up real audio, but this was attributed to the fact that I had the sound card incorrectly set up. In my system, the IRQ needs to be set to 5. That was my error. I also added a line which points to the sound card IRQ. I am at work and I do not remember the exact syntax, but it is in LINT for version FreeBSD 2.2.6. Tomorrow I will post my exact lines. Once I changed these lines and compiled, presto, all was well. A good test is to install rsynth (/usr/ports/audio/rsynth). The execuatable is called 'say'. Do this test say this is a test to check my sound card I hope this works If your hear a synthetic voice crack and drop half of this sentence, then you may have a sound card IRQ problem. This is what mine did. After I reconfigured the kernal, I could run the above test with no problems. Another interesting point to make is that I noticed in the ports off of the FreeBSD home page, there exists a radio port: http://www.freebsd.org/ports/audio.html radio-2.0.4 Radio over the Internet. Long description Maintained by: janek@gaja.ipan.lublin.pl Also listed in: Net I have not tried this program yet, but I am sure that I will in the near future. -Wyatt > -- > > /Bengan > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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