A day or two ago I took the plunge and upgraded to frozen. A few small glitches, but they were easily dealt with and mostly I was very pleased by how smooth and how straightforward the upgrade process was. Thanks and praise to the developers.
I have one problem however. I had three versions of RealPlayer on my slink system---RealPlayer 7, RealPlayer G2 and RealPlayer 5.0. I had the three versions because there are certain sites that I visit regularly whose archived files always produce an error when I atttempt to listen to them with more recent versions of Real Player than 5.0 (the error-message is `Invalid Metafile'; the real.com site contains the helpful information that this is not a common error-message). So for those files. I would use version 5. (All of these versions were installed by hand in /usr/local.) Now that I've upgraded to frozen, though, rvplayer5.0 always produces a segmentation fault; G2 has expired; and the performance I get with RealPlayer 7 (on the files that it will accept) is not great (it doesn't seem to handle buffering very well). This doesn't feel like progress. What I would like most is to be able to run the old version (5.0) in frozen. Does anyone know of a way to solve the seg-fault problem? Or any insight into the `Invalid Metafile' problem? Thanks very much, Jim
