Package: realplayer Version: 8.0 Severity: wishlist hi
an easy mistake to make with realplayer is to have another program using the audio device. realplayer responds to this by freezing. in my case it happens when i have xmms in play or in pause mode. i then try to watch something in realplayer, and it takes me a while to realise that xmms is clashing with it. i am using ALSA for my sound, without esd (i found esd made the music skip more). an even more naive user than me (i've been using linux for years) mightn't realise that there was a clash, and think realplayer was broken, as i did until i realised it was waiting for the audio device. of course the proper fix is to get realplayer to behave more sensibly when it can't open the audio device; or to create a new audio/video streaming format that's open source and have it become the dominant format. ;) but meanwhile i added the following line to /usr/bin/X11/realplayer /usr/bin/xmms --stop which helps me stay sane for the next time i gut this bug and forget what causes it. perhaps somehting more general could be done, e.g. a warning to users when running realplayer if they don't have esd installed or something... -- System Information Debian Release: testing/unstable Kernel Version: Linux focus.physics.usyd.edu.au 2.2.17 #1 Thu Aug 17 23:13:16 EST 2000 i686 unknown Versions of the packages realplayer depends on: ii cpio 2.4.2-32 GNU cpio -- a program to manage archives of ii debconf 0.3.65 Debian configuration management system ii libc6 2.2.1-1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone ii xlib6g 4.0.2-1 pseudopackage providing X libraries
