Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 16 Nov 1998 17:39:33 +0000 | From | Michel Catudal <> | Subject | Re: Sound still broken but has improved a bit. |
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Alan Cox wrote: > > Well if you read the list you'd know the bug is in realaudio so the kernel > wont be getting fixed. > > Also you'd know that you can binary fix realaudio this way >
> > >> I must say that the only drawback that I have with 2.1.123 and some > >> recent versions is the rvplayer. Is using 2.1.119 the only solution > >> to run realplayer or is there any patch available? > > Rvplayer distributed with latest netscape (RealPlayer, Version 5.0.0.35) can > be made to work with the latest kernels simply by using the following stupid > commandline (back up old executable before trying this!): > > dd if=/dev/zero of=rvplayer bs=1 count=1 seek=657586 conv=notrunc >
My version of rvplayer is rvplayer-5.0-3 and there was no RealPlayer with the version of netscape I have. I got the us version of Netscape with 128 bits encription (libc5 version). I got RealAudio directly from RealAudio's site in a RPM form, libc6 version.
> This "fix" removes O_NONBLOCK from the open() call flags used to open audio > device. There is one drawback --- rvplayer does not work well when /dev/dsp > is already in use by other programs. >
I think applying this binary fix would crash something.
Real Audio does work good now until there is a net congestion. I don't understand the reasoning in changing the sound, bug or not until a new version of RealAudio comes. What it is going to do is piss off a lot of potential Linux users. We can't dictate to RealAudio, we're not their bread and butter, winblows is.
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