From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (qmail 8051 invoked from network); 30 Jun 1998 17:46:57 -0000 Received: from smtp-relay-1.adobe.com (192.150.11.1) by mail2.redhat.com with SMTP; 30 Jun 1998 17:46:57 -0000 Received: from inner-relay-1.Adobe.COM (inner-relay-1.corp.adobe.com [153.32.1.51]) by smtp-relay-1.Adobe.COM (8.8.6) with ESMTP id KAA02189 for ; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 10:41:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-345.corp.Adobe.COM by inner-relay-1.Adobe.COM (8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA15777; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 10:46:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from labrador by mail-345.corp.Adobe.COM (SMI-8.6) with ESMTP id KAA10886; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 10:46:22 -0700 Received: by labrador (8.6.9) id KAA02408; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 10:46:25 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <13721.9328.752877.311730@labrador> Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 10:46:24 -0700 (PDT) To: blinux-list@redhat.com Subject: RealPlayer, RAP, and XVFB X-Mailer: VM 6.53 under Emacs 20.2.1 Reply-To: raman@Adobe.COM From: "T. V. Raman" X-Phone: 1 (408) 536-3945 X-Fax: 1(408) 537-4042 List-Id: To all blinuxers-- The whole thread about rap and realaudio is painful to watch. The rap script is a simple script designed to automate the somewhat repetitive task of making sure there is an X server running and launching the realplayer. The reason for the problems reported here are symptomatic of this. Rather than complaining after simply downloading the script, you would be better off with such tools if you: 1) Looked at the script to see what it does --in fact the readme file that comes with rap documents exactly what it does-- 2) test and get each individual piece working in your environment in this case Xvfb etc --there is no valid excuse such as "I did not have access" for not doing this-- because you can start xvfb from any shell running inside emacspeak 3) finally use the packaged rap script so you dont have to repeat all the steps each time-- If you are not comfortable with doing this, go use M$ software where you will have the option of clicking yes, no or cancel -- And by the way, the rap script nukes the Xvfb server each time you stop real audio -- if you play realaudio a lot, you may just want to start up Xvfb running at boot time and have the rap script only launch the realaudio player. Also, someone on this list mentioned the realaudio player getting into stutter mode and speculated that this had something to do with the windowing system-- that stutter is typically caused by the network or machine getting overloaded and has little to do with the windowing system. If it does go to stutter mode, just stop and start the player-- it will catch up. -- Best Regards, --raman Adobe Systems Tel: 1 (408) 536 3945 (W14-612) Advanced Technology Group Fax: 1 (408) 537 4042 (W14 129) 345 Park Avenue Email: raman@adobe.com San Jose , CA 95110 -2704 Email: raman@cs.cornell.edu http://labrador.corp.adobe.com/~raman/ (Adobe Intranet) http://cs.cornell.edu/home/raman/raman.html (Cornell) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Disclaimer: The opinions expressed are my own and in no way should be taken as representative of my employer, Adobe Systems Inc. ____________________________________________________________