[nas] Problems with RealOne Player

[Dave Richards]

What I am seeing is that if I start the RealOne player  without the sound
redirection stuff running, that it comes up and say that it was unable to
access the sound device.  You are then able to get into the RealOne player
and access the configuration areas and all of the pulldowns work.  As soon
as you activate NAS in an attempt to redirect sound, the RealOne player
totally locks along with every window on the terminal.  Eventually it times
out and then RealOne dies.

I've never seen an application make the terminals act like this before. 
It's almost like it is just flooding the terminal in an attempt to open NAS
and no other network activity is allowed until it times out.

Anyone else have NCD's to try it?

Dave

On 2002.01.30 20:41 Jon Trulson wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Dave Richards wrote:
> 
> > Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 16:52:04 -0500
> > From: Dave Richards <drichard at largo.com>
> > To: nas at radscan.com
> > Subject: [nas] Problems with RealOne Player
> > 
> > > All-
> > > 
> > >       I have been unable to get the new version of RealPlayer
> (RealOne)
> > > working with NAS via Eriks redirection library.   We are using NCD
> > > terminals and this is the first time I have seen these results.  The
> > whole
> > > Xserver locks up, all windows stop working until it times out and
> then
> > > bombs.  Realplayer 7 and 8 used to work just fine.
> > > 
> 
> 	I don't have any NCD terms here, but what you describe seems like
> an X server problem to me... Working for an X server company - I'm quite
> familiar with that phenomenon ;-)  NAS doesn't use the Xserver for
> anything so I don't see how NAS could cause it - unless the builtin NAS 
> server in the xterm is having a problem that crashes the whole machine...
> 
> 	This may be a stupid question, but can you run realplayer without
> any sound at all? no NAS, libaudiooss, etc?  
> 
> > >       I am wondering if anyone else can duplicate my efforts and see
> if
> > > they see the same thing.  There is a place to set the 'soundcard' and
> all
> > 3
> > > of the settings do the same thing.  Very strange.
> > 
> > I have placed the .bin file on our webserver for anyone that wants to
> try
> > it.  Go to http://www.largo.com/realproblem/
> > 
>                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^ ;-)
> 
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