[plug] realplayer and via onboard audio

[alan howard]

i have the same problem. everything works fine except on real player.
i was using vibra 128 which worked fine, but now using the same as you. i 
cant quite see what the problem is caused by , so if you do find out please 
let me know

On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 19:20, Craig Ringer wrote:
> Hi
> Quick question: anyone know why I get awful garbage audio (not static,
> vaguely resembles original amped up and filtered for more distortion than
> any human can fully comprehend) from RealPlayer? Even their "welcome" sound
> does it. XMMS, esdplay, play, mpg123/321, etc are all fine. RealPlayer
> doesn't even do the same thing every time. Realplayer works on my home
> machine (sb live) also running sid and with a similar config.
>
> When playing through ESD, the sound gets "crunched" into a smaller
> timeframe sometimes, while other bits stretch out or repeat a tiny fragment
> so it "buzzes". Sometimes it works. Sometimes it starts/finishes partway
> through. But its a lot more intelligible than without esd.
>
> Ideas anybody?
>
> I'd love to use anything else but realplayer (something that says "whoops
> cant open /dev/dsp" instead of "I'll freeze 'till you kill -9 me" for
> example) but don't know of anything that  handles the format.
>
> I've got a built-in
> VIA Technologies, Inc. AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
>
> running the via82cxxx_audio kernel for the driver.