RTSP, Real Player, 2008 and me

[jbuckley2004]

In Mandriva 2008 I've gone through the procedure of installing realplay10gold to my home directory, and in firefox, added the network protocol-handler to point to it. When I go to CSPANs page for America and the Courts (don't ask! It's the only place I really see and watch RTSP streams), I can see the video, but get no audio.

 

I think I've done all the trouble shooting - my sound card is working, the volume is turned up (on the RealPlay quit, too).

When I download a .ra file to $HOME, open realplayer and point it to the file, I get the error message

Unsupported document type. (file:///home/me/dreamst1.ra)

I made sure that the win32 codecs were there, and also installed the real-codec and helix codec from PLF, but unlike the past experiences, I'm seeing video and just not hearing any audio.

 

It's got to be the codecs, right? If they don't go into the $HOME/Realplayer/codecs directory, could someone please tell me where they do belong?

 

Or am I missing something?

 

Thanks

Edited October 27, 2007 by jbuckley2004

[scarecrow]

These codecs aren't used by RealPlayer.

Most probably you don't have OSS emulation running- AFAIK all versions or RealPlayer use OSS as the sound server.

What's the output of

lsmod | grep oss

in a console?

[jbuckley2004]

Thanks for the replay, Scarecrow.

What I get from lsmod is

$ sudo lsmod | grep oss
snd_seq_oss			29280  0
snd_seq_midi_event	  6816  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq				45968  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_pcm_oss			37312  0
snd_mixer_oss		  14624  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_device		  7244  4 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
snd_pcm				68996  4 snd_pcm_oss,snd_ca0106,snd_ac97_codec
snd					43972  18 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_ca0106,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_dev
ce,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer

Not sure how to interpret this, though. Doesn't it tell me that OSS emulation is indeed running?