Sound problems with Realplayer and netscape flash plugin

Hi,

I recently installed RealPlayer 8, Beta (stand alone and netscape plugin) and the macromedia flash netscape plugin. Realplayer always complains about the sound device being busy. I've tried it in all three modes (native drivers, OSS and ESD) with the same results. Plus the flash plugin plays sound at high speed. The animation is fine but sound is too fast.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Dan Manley

More info on RealPlayer...

I do get sound out of it if and only if I try: changing the mod to something other than OSS; hit play (error popup about device busy); change the mode back to OSS (with custom sampling rates disabled); hitting play. Subsequent plays without changing from OSS result in failures. With those settings, the trademark realplayer chime sounds ok, but I tried to play a south park episode (from www.spdownloads.com) using the same steps and the sound is really distored. Is it a bug with Real?

Dan