Realplayer Sound fix (Ubuntu all versions)
by Soddengecko @ 6:57
I had to download the RealPlayer for Linux because of certain videos and the plugin for Firefox.
unfortunatly I had no sound, although video quality was fantastic. So after some searching around I found a few fixes, this one worked for me.
Open your terminal window and edit this file in your favourite text editor (”gedit” for me) You will also need to substitute the RealPlayer version with the version you have.
- sudo gedit /usr/lib/realplay-10.0.8/realplay
Find the line near the bottom of the file that says: (line 73 for me)
- $REALPLAYBIN”$@”
Replace that line with the following:
- aoss $REALPLAYBIN”$@”
EDIT
As Michael Olberg kindly pointed out (thank you) you may need to double check that you have the aoss package installed.
To check that it is installed, or to install it, just type the following into a terminal window.
- sudo apt-get install alsa-oss
- or you can just click this link (provoding you are viewing from an ubuntu machine)
Comment posted by:
Michael Olberg
Posted on:
15-03-2008 @ 11:50:25
You might want to add to your instructions that ‘aoss’ is part of package ‘alsa-oss’, so that needs to be installed first. Otherwise this is exactly what worked for me as well on Ubuntu 7.10 (gutsy)
Comment posted by:
Soddengecko
Posted on:
15-03-2008 @ 15:45:44
Hi Michael
Thank you – I will update that immediately. I missed it myself as I already had it installed.
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