OSX RealPlayer sends audio to internal speaker

August 9, 2007 12:22 PM

Mac Pro, OS X 10.4.10: Why in the hopscotching christ is Real Player (10.1.0) sending audio to the internal speaker? Output is directed to go to the line out in System Preferences, and no other media players or noisemakers fail to do the right thing.

This didn't happen in the past, but I can't pin down when the problem crept up. I deleted the Real-related plists in my Library and let it reconfigure itself, to no effect.

posted by Wolfdog to computers & internet (3 comments total)

I can confirm that this is happening to me as well. Would love to see a solution/explanation.
posted by bump at 12:41 PM on August 9, 2007

Check the audio settings in Audio Midi Setup and make sure they're set to 16-bit, 44.1 KHz?
posted by kindall at 6:27 PM on August 9, 2007

OK, then! Here's the fix for this problem: open GarageBand (no, really - GarageBand, not System Preferences); start a project, open the preferences menu, and set Audio Output (from Built-in Output) to Line Out. Voila!
posted by Wolfdog at 5:04 AM on January 24, 2008