[NMLUG] 2.6 kernel sound modules

[paul.tietjens at moriarty.k12.nm.us (Paul Tietjens)]

Sam Noble wrote:

>On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 08:18 -0700, Aaron NMLUG wrote:
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>>I do have some odd behavior to report.
>>The card seems to work fine for apps like xmms.
>>However, it breaks up on a RealAudio 10 internet
>>radio feed.  This seems strange, since the buffer
>>doesn't get below 80%.  It just doesn't seem to
>>be consuming the data in a smooth real-time fashion.
>>It just hung when I reniced realplay.bin up to -18,
>>or even -1.
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>Is it possible to play the stream in some Free Software player instead
>of Real's? I'm not sure if this is always the case but for my personal
>use I've always been able to play any audio stream in xmms and rhythmbox
>(gxine too when I tried which has a nice menu specifically for that)
>Though I do recall at one time I had installed RealOne or some such
>monstrosity to get it's codec and then the Real stuff worked in other
>players (that may have been a video thing?)
>Anyway these days with the marillat debian repo:
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>deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main
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> I can't think of the last time there was a stream or file that wouldn't
>play in my free tools.
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mplayer does Real streams fairly well, as does Xine (I think).