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Zanken
Member
05-14-2006
| Tuesday, July 04, 2006 - 4:12 pm
Not sure where I should post this. Every year someone here puts the best controls for the sound so we can hear clearer. I just listened to the live oops by BB and all the voices sounded really tinny. Can anyone help with the settings?
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Nmbeach
Member
06-27-2004
| Tuesday, July 04, 2006 - 4:29 pm
I need help too. My sound was real choppy. Anything I can do to fix that?
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Max
Moderator
08-12-2000
| Friday, July 07, 2006 - 7:56 am
I have the choppy sound thing, too. Every couple of seconds, it's like the sound cuts out. Makes for a very irritating listenting experience! I've messed with the Real Player settings, but nothing seems to change it. I'm on a cable modem. The picture is AWESOME -- best ever for BB thanks to their increased bandwidth, but the sound is driving me nuts. SUggestions more than welcome and appreciated! 
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Jooleechenlvr
Member
04-21-2004
| Friday, July 07, 2006 - 8:47 am
My picture is very irritating. Constant communicating and frozen inmates. Even going through BBKeyhole is the same way. Took out real player and then reinstalled, still the same way. Worked fine the past 2 seasons and do run DSL.
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Clemmis
Member
07-10-2005
| Friday, July 07, 2006 - 9:07 am
I was having the same trouble. Beautiful images. Lousy sound. Here's what I did to give me both beautiful images AND great sound: *** Why is stream playback stopping or failing to start when using a broadband or wireless connection? Some versions of network hardware do not reliably provided streaming support using normal transports for RealPlayer. If you are experiencing problems, even after updating with the latest software and firmware available from your hardware manufacturer, try using HTTP transport exclusively. To switch to HTTP exclusively: Select RealPlayer > Preferences. Open the Transport pane. Select Use manually configured Click Configure... Disable (clear) all transports except HTTP. *** I restarted the player and all is now fine!
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Kalekona
Member
06-12-2005
| Friday, July 07, 2006 - 9:33 am
Clemmis, You are my HERO. So far that did the trick. Thank you so very much!
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Kia7010
Member
08-01-2004
| Friday, July 07, 2006 - 9:33 am
Thanks so much for the tips Clemmis - audio is great now.
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Clemmis
Member
07-10-2005
| Friday, July 07, 2006 - 9:37 am
I'm so glad you all posted you were having trouble, too. I was going crazy with all the high quality images but stuttering sound. It was your messages here that made me feel this wasn't just an issue with my setup and so I started digging for an answer.
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Betzee4
Member
06-23-2006
| Friday, July 07, 2006 - 9:55 am
Clemmis, You are my hero, too! I had both choppy, stuttering sound, and lousy images, freezing, communicating, etc. Used your instructions and now sound is great, picture looks good, although all I can see is 'flames', but at least they aren't freezing up. Thanks so much!! 
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Clemmis
Member
07-10-2005
| Friday, July 07, 2006 - 10:07 am
I am so happy to hear this is working for others, too. I tried about five different things before I found this worked. Exiting and re-starting the Real player after making the change is important or it doesn't take quite right. It seemed we all had great machines, a fast internet connection -- but something was getting bogged down somewhere. Now we know how to get around it.
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Max
Moderator
08-12-2000
| Friday, July 07, 2006 - 10:09 am
THANK YOU, CLEMMIS!!!

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Aerojunki
Member
06-30-2004
| Friday, July 07, 2006 - 10:12 am
Thank you so much, Clemmis..it worked!!!!! I LOVE YOU!!!!
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Shemoves
Member
07-05-2006
| Friday, July 07, 2006 - 10:17 am
what a difference!! my first year with broadband and the live feeds and I wondered why I bothered. With that choppy sound I was in awe of the people who post in live feeds that they understood anything. whoo hooo Clemmis! I'm using the Macintosh Real Player, by the way.
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Clemmis
Member
07-10-2005
| Friday, July 07, 2006 - 10:48 am
Thanks for all the great energy! You are all too kind. Real always "updates" and "improves" their software -- usually to our detriment. They default to what works best and cheapest for them in delivery of streaming product and not necessarily what works the greatest for us as viewers. The fact they offer so many “solutions” and “workarounds” to their default setup tells us they know exactly what they’re doing to us. I'm on a Mac, too, Shemoves! This is my first Mac time after spending all my life on Windows. I knew there was no way my faster, better, smarter MacBook Pro was "choppier" than my other Windows machines. No way.
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Clsteam
Member
06-27-2004
| Friday, July 07, 2006 - 11:00 am
You're the best Clemmis!! I had the choppy sound problem too but I thought it was because of too many people are watching the feeds at the same time lol I'm on a Mac too, a G5, I never thought about it was my computer problem, coz as you said, there's just no way ;) Thanks again =D
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Friday, July 07, 2006 - 11:01 am
i see where to click the box for'manually config conncection settings' then at bottom is says to click OK.....but i dont see where i click 'configure' nor do i see where to disable all trransports....what am i mising?
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Clemmis
Member
07-10-2005
| Friday, July 07, 2006 - 11:23 am
Are you using version 10 of the RealPlayer, Pamy?
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Friday, July 07, 2006 - 11:31 am
not sure it says Real Player Plus
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Jdude
Member
04-28-2005
| Friday, July 07, 2006 - 11:37 am
Will just called Kaysar the "Brad Pitt" of Muslims!!! Everyone laughed.
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Betzee4
Member
06-23-2006
| Friday, July 07, 2006 - 9:47 pm
Pamy, after you click the box for "manually configure connections settings," click on the RTSP Settings button, then uncheck everything except the box for "Attempt to use HTTP for all content." Then do the same thing on the PNA Settings box. Click OK, then close Real Player and re-open it. That should fix it.
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Donut
Member
07-31-2001
| Friday, July 07, 2006 - 10:21 pm
Thank you! We are on dial up and it helped! Actually this year we got new memory and it moved a lot instead of just being mostly still shots like the past few years and we could hear decent sound, but after that switch we are getting movement pretty much most of the time and sound is even clearer! We were gonna get DSL but I'm not sure we will bother now!(cuz we would have to give up webtv) It is still very blurry a lot of the time unless on close ups of still faces. Does DSL make that better? BTW, to answer the original question... I love the equalizer. Different settings really change the sound alot. Usually the settings that seem best are Loudness, Presence List, Voice and Movies. Depends on where they are...
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Mamapors
Member
07-29-2004
| Friday, July 07, 2006 - 10:23 pm
Clemmis---count me in as your biggest admirer. It works!!!! I have perfect feeds and perfect sound. YAY!!!!
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Rgw825
Member
07-29-2005
| Saturday, July 08, 2006 - 1:22 am
Last year people had some cool settings, Like Wisper, Shower, and Hot Tub settings. They came in handy and made it so much easier to hear some things. I wish i still had those. Does anybody know if those are still around somewhere
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Bb7willtowin
Member
06-21-2006
| Saturday, July 08, 2006 - 1:46 am
wow I can put it back at 350 speed and hear great sound - thanks!!
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Clemmis
Member
07-10-2005
| Saturday, July 08, 2006 - 4:31 am
Donut -- Thanks for those equalizer settings. I will try them out. Yes, DSL is worth every cent you pay for it. You are on your own, private, high-speed line -- unlike a cable modem where you can "share a line" with up to 100 of your neighbors. Mamapors -- I am so glad this is working for you now! Bb7willtowin -- I tried all the speed settings, too, but they just didn't make a difference. Who would want to give up 350 when we finally have it? I'm glad our sound now matches the beautiful images.
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Vaxie
Member
06-25-2004
| Saturday, July 08, 2006 - 12:57 pm
Thank you so much
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Bonzacat
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, July 08, 2006 - 1:22 pm
I just realized I had two seasons of BB voice settings (somewhat similar but the house changed, so keep that in mind) still in my equalizer. See if these help. Have fun!

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Lavender
Member
05-05-2005
| Sunday, July 09, 2006 - 10:21 am
omg thank you sooooooooo much clemmis! i also have been experiencing the choppy sound and had tried everything to fix it to no avail. ive watched the live feeds every year and this is the first ive had a problem with sound so i just tried your solution and woooohoooooo it worked! youve saved my sanity! lol ty again ;)
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