On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 22:42, John Andersen wrote:
On Thursday 30 October 2003 17:29, Donald Henson wrote:
That didn't work. I tried /dev/cdrom, file:///dev/cdrom, /media/cdrom, and file:///media/cdrom. Without "file://", the error was "invalid protocol specified in URL. URLs should typically start with 'rtsp://', 'pnm://', or 'http://', and with "file://", the error was "Some components are not available to provide playback of this presentation on your system." FWIW, the player plays an MP3 file just fine. Maybe I should use a different player. Anyway, any other suggestions?
You should try xmms, its a better player anyway.
I think I tried xmms a couple of times while trying to get my sound card to work. I just tried it again and it is pretty nice. The main reason I want to use Real Player is that it has a decent volume while the other players are so quiet it's hard to hear them. (The must be at least a dozen places to set the volume so I may have missed one.) Xmms isn't too bad in that department, though. However, I can't seem to get it to play a CD either.
What kind computer is this?
It's a custom-built Epiq, 2.4 Ghz Pentium 4, 1 Gbyte RAM, 120 GByte hard disk. It was built to run Windows XP but is now running SuSE Linux 9.0. The sound "card", by the way, is built into the motherboard. There really is no card. The setup under Windows worked. I used the CD-ROM to digitally rip CDs and to play them.
The reason I ask is sometimes the analog output wire of the cdrom drive is not wired to the motherboard/sound card. This is especially common in laptops. Some windows players will still play the disk by reading it digitally. Xmms will to that for you as well if you enable that input-plug in. I don't think RealPlayer will read digitally.
Input-plug in? Don Henson