Re: Real Audio player

["Yo 'Ric Dude" <ericmit ix netcom com>]

Peter Cague wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> I'm running RH 5.1 and using
> Enlightenment as my window manager
> with the lastest gnome rpms installed
> and find that esd is killing my
> realaudio player, in fact replay won't
> play mp3 files either.
> 
> Is there a way to get esd to share or
> allow multi threaded media playing?

The idea behind esd is to allow multiple programs 
to sharea single audio device.  To do this, they make
requests of esd, and esd mixes together all the 
active requests, and talks to the sound card.

Recent revisions of replay support esd directly.
configure --help to see if a special option is needed
to activate esd support.  

Real Player is a little trickier, as the source is 
not available.  There is a utility in the *latest*
esound snapshots (less than a day old) called esddsp,
which *may* reroute calls to the local audio device
(/dev/dsp) and send the data to esd instead.  This 
utility has succeeded with x11amp, amp, and some other
audio players.  It *might* work.  It might not. Try:

esddsp rvplayer [rvplayer options]

If esddsp does not correctly reroute the audio for 
you, you can also tell esd to temporarily release
the audio device for other programs by:

esdctl off ; rvplayer

Esd-aware programs will be unable to talk to the 
audio device while the other program has control 
of it.  When you wish to return control of the audio 
device to esd, use:

esdctl on

> Cheers
> Kiwi Pete
>   Peter Cague <pjcague@startrek.org.nz>

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