[PLUG] Launch executable, nothing happens?

Tue Nov 27 21:38:35 UTC 2007

According to Real's Helix website, their player doesn't support ALSA
or ESD, but it does support OSS:

https://player.helixcommunity.org/2007/releases/rp10gold/RP10_0_9ReleaseNotes.html

This is most likely why Real's audio output is different from the
other players you've tried.  The alsa-oss package in Synaptic provides
ALSA with an OSS compatibility layer.  This should give applications
that only understand OSS the ability to play through your ALSA system.
 Now that you have that installed, there should be some way to get
Real player to work... though if you've tried this hard for this long
it may be more trouble than it's worth.

According to Totem's home page, it supports several playlist formats.
If it does everything else you need, it sounds to me like figuring out
how to get Totem to work with playlists is your best bet.

On Nov 25, 2007 7:13 AM, Carlos Konstanski
<ckonstanski at pippiandcarlos.com> wrote:
> I often have to use the following tactic to play stuff that is
> embedded into web pages (streaming or not).  This is because of a lack
> of web browser plugin support:

I used to do this quite a bit until I got the MPlayer browser plug-in
working.  Have you tried it?

# emerge -av mplayerplug-in

It's got scads of USE flags, including options for Real, WMP, and
Quicktime.  It works for me, but I haven't made the jump to 64 bit.
There's a (possibly outdated) Howto for it on the Gentoo wiki.

-Nick

On Nov 25, 2007 7:21 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 17:40:36 -0700
> Carlos Konstanski <ckonstanski at pippiandcarlos.com> dijo:
>
> > At Sun, 25 Nov 2007 12:42:35 -0800,
> > John Jason Jordan wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 08:34:56 -0700
> > > Carlos Konstanski <ckonstanski at pippiandcarlos.com> dijo:
> > >
> > > And regarding the above packages, those must be the files that you have
> > > installed. I searched my entire filesystem on the filenames like
> > > "medialibs," etc., and found none of them, nor do I have any of the
> > > folders. I installed it from Synaptic, which is usually pretty good
> > > above making sure all dependencies are met.
> >
> > Nah, these are packages.  But they are gentoo packages, not ubuntu
> > ones.  Ubuntu may or may not have analogs.  I have never used ubuntu,
> > so I don't know.
> >
> > > Clearly, something is missing that is keeping it from finding the
> > > audio system.
> >
> > There is another thing to check: the kernel.  ALSA kernel support
> > inclues a config option for OSS emulation.  Thia may be important.
> > Look for any loaded (or otherwise) kernel modules with "oss" in the
> > name:
> >
> > lsmod |grep oss (these are loaded)
> > or
> > find /lib/modules/`uname -r` -type f -iname '*oss*.ko' (these may or
> > may not be loaded; check with lsmod)
>
> Thanks again fror the suggestions. Here is what I got:
>
> jjj at Devil7:~$ lsmod |grep oss
> snd_pcm_oss                     50048   0
> snd_mixer_oss           20096   4 snd_pcm_oss
> snd_pcm                         94344   2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
> snd_seq_oss                     36864   0
> snd_seq_midi_event      9984    2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
> snd_seq                         62496   6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
> snd_seq_device          10260   5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
> snd                                     69288   11
> snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
>
> jjj at Devil7:~$ find /lib/modules/`uname -r` -type f -iname '*oss*.ko'
> /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/kernel/sound/core/oss/snd-mixer-oss.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/kernel/sound/core/oss/snd-pcm-oss.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/kernel/sound/core/seq/oss/snd-seq-oss.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/kernel/drivers/media/video/saa7134/saa7134-oss.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/kernel/drivers/scsi/osst.ko
>
> Sadly I have no ken of what that means, except that apparently a bunch of OSS stuff is installed. I note even more things in Synaptic. For example, I found (and installed) oss-compat and alsa-oss. They didn't make any difference, however.
>
> Meantime, after much poking around I finally got Amarok to play sounds. (Another program with too many features.) It handles a lot of the streaming radio that other players cannot. However, it can't play everything, and several streams give me something that sounds like a card being thlupped by bicycle spokes. Plus its interface is annoying.
>
> I understand now how my parents felt when, as a teenager, I tried to explain to them the marvels of surround sound. Their idea of playing music was to turn on a radio. A radio had an on/off/volume knob on one end, a tuning knob on the other, and a station dial in between. Now, like them back then, I am being dragged into higher tech than I want to know anything about. However, I do eventually want to be able to listen to streaming internet radio on my home sound system. I want to do this because the quality of local broadcast radio has dropped to vomitous levels. My plan is to broadcast to the sound system from the computer via bluetooth. I have a home sound system bluetooth receiver on order. So I guess I have to steel myself and learn about music playback in the new millennium.
>
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