Bugzilla – Bug 128840
Realplayer doesn't play video smoothly with Intel 82801EB/ER (ICH5R) audio controller
Last modified: 2005-10-20 10:10:40 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
Does aplay work well? Try just "aplay foo.wav" with a long enough WAV file. Also, try "aplay -Dplughw foo.wav", too.
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
No, idea... Please reopen this bug if it encounters again.