[nmglug] mplayer

[BrianO'Keefe]

Anthony Martinez wrote:
> BrianO'Keefe wrote:
> >> Hopefully there's some help for my problem. I had mplayer working great
> >> and playing .wmv files just fine. I installed Gnash to play flash and
> >> installed it from source. I didn't select any options when I installed
> >> Gnash and it does play flash in firefox-great!
> >> But now I have no sound in mplayer for any video type, .wmv, mpeg,
> .mov,
> >> etc.
> >> I get this in a terminal. Help is greatly appreciated and many thanks!
> >> Happy holidays! Oh, I can play mpegs with vlc or totem and the sound is
> >> fine so I don't understand the error.
> >>
>
> MPlayer is configured to use OSS instead of Alsa. Try  changing
> /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf to say "ao=alsa," instead of "ao=oss,".
> Might work.
>
> >> mplayer /home/brianokeefe/Desktop/geniusbird.wmv
> >> MPlayer dev-SVN-r19849-4.0.3 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
> >> AltiVec found
> >> CPU: PowerPC
> >>
> >> Playing /home/brianokeefe/Desktop/geniusbird.wmv.
> >> ASF file format detected.
> >> VIDEO:  [WMV3]  320x240  24bpp  1000.000 fps    0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
> >>
> ==========================================================================
> >> Requested video codec family [wmv9dmo] (vfm=dmo) not available.
> >> Enable it at compilation.
> >> Requested video codec family [wmvdmo] (vfm=dmo) not available.
> >> Enable it at compilation.
> >> Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
> >> Selected video codec: [ffwmv3] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg M$ WMV3/WMV9)
> >>
> ==========================================================================
> >>
> ==========================================================================
> >> Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
> >> AUDIO: 22050 Hz, 1 ch, s16be, 20.0 kbit/5.67% (ratio: 2501->44100)
> >> Selected audio codec: [ffwmav2] afm: ffmpeg (DivX audio v2 (FFmpeg))
> >>
> ==========================================================================
> >> [AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Device or
> >> resource busy
> >> ao_nas: init(): Can't open nas audio server -> nosound
> >> Opening /dev/dvb/adapter0/audio0
> >> DVB AUDIO DEVICE: No such file or directory
> >> AO: [null] 22050Hz 1ch s16be (2 bytes per sample)
> >> Starting playback...
> >> VDec: vo config request - 320 x 240 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
> >> VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
> >> Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
> >> VO: [x11] 320x240 => 320x240 Planar YV12
> >> SwScaler: using unscaled 0x32315659 (21VY) -> 0x42475220 (BGR ) special
> >> converter
> >> A:   7.6 V:   7.6 A-V:  0.006 ct: -0.044  70/ 70 12%  5%  0.9% 2 0
> >> Exiting... (Quit)
> >>
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Thanks Anthony. I tend to do these things and sometimes muck up my
system. I'm including the current audio settings in the file and perhaps
you can elaborate as it seems that "ao=" several options.
Also, i have my mplaer.c file in my home directory and I wonder if that
has any bearing on the problem.
Thanks again.
Brian

##################
# audio settings #
##################

# Specify default audio driver (see -ao help for a list).
ao=alsa,oss,sdl,esd,arts

# Use SDL audio driver with the esd subdriver by default.
#ao = sdl:esd

# Specify the mixer device.
#mixer = /dev/mixer

# Resample the sound to 44100Hz with the lavcresample audio filter.
#af=lavcresample=44100