Bug 128840

Summary:	Realplayer doesn't play video smoothly with Intel 82801EB/ER (ICH5R) audio controller
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Forgotten User vj9ItF7l4D <forgotten_vj9ItF7l4D>
Component:	Sound	Assignee:	Takashi Iwai <tiwai>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i686
OS:	SuSE Linux 10.0
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Found By:	Customer	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---

Description Forgotten User vj9ItF7l4D 2005-10-17 20:38:18 UTC

Motherboard: AOpen AX4SG-UN, with on-board sound chip identified by Yast as:
"82801 EB/ER (IC5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio controller". 
CPU: Pentium 4
Versions: SuSE 9.2, 9.3 and 10.0: all versions of Realplayer that came with
these versions.
Installing the sound chip needed a reboot in 9.1, 9.2 and 9.3 (on-the-fly
restart always failed with some complaints by modprobe). Worked right from the
start in 10.0: improvement!

Remaining Problem:
Realplayer plays only 1 second of video and then stops for several seconds. It
doesn't matter if it's a video stream from the internet or a locally stored
video file.

Sound runs normally. Video in Kaffeine doesn't appear to have any problems.

The problem remained after switching to an external video card. The problem
disappeared after installing an external sound card (Sound blaster Audigy 2 ZS).

Ergo: it's the combination of Realplayer and the Intel onboard sound chip (driver).

Happy bug hunting

Stephan van den Akker
Nijmegen
the Netherlands

Comment 1 Takashi Iwai 2005-10-18 12:24:30 UTC

Does aplay work well?  Try just "aplay foo.wav" with a long enough WAV file.
Also, try "aplay -Dplughw foo.wav", too.

Comment 2 Forgotten User vj9ItF7l4D 2005-10-19 21:48:02 UTC

Aargh, Not able to reproduce the problem. 

It seems like the problem disappeared after inserting the new soundcard (and installing the driver, in parallel with the Intel sound device). I did a fresh install of 10.0 and un-installed the Sound Blaster to try to reproduce it, but the problem didn't surface again. 

Strange...  (hardware problem?)

Stephan van den Akker

Comment 3 Takashi Iwai 2005-10-20 10:10:40 UTC

No, idea...

Please reopen this bug if it encounters again.