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Annoyance with RealPlayer


sellis
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Under Firefox, when I'm listening to the shows I missed via BBC Radio 4's Listen Again link (for example, go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/, click on "Launch BBC Radio Player" and then on "Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive"), RealPlayer has an annoying side effect.

 

Every browser..................

 

operation (e.g. scrolling) tends to....................

 

freeze for 10-15......................

 

seconds then work ...................

 

again for another 5-10 seconds then........................

 

You get the idea. This does not seem to affect any other running applications but does affect a second Firefox invocation too.

 

At frst, I thought it might be competition for runtime between the browser and the player - by default, both RealPlayer and Firefox run at level 16. I've tried renice to lower the player's priority level a bit, but that didn't seem to have any visible effect.

 

Any ideas? Anyone else even seen this problem?

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It's probably because your listening to Radio 4 :P

 

Seriously though, I just downloaded RealPlayer 10.2 Gold for Linux (rpm), and installed to see if I could replicate the problem.

 

Unfortunately, I've not managed to. What version are you running?

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