[nmglug] mplayer

[Anthony Martinez]

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BrianO'Keefe wrote:
>> @ubuntu:~$ mplayer -ao help
>> MPlayer dev-SVN-r19849-4.0.3 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
>> AltiVec found
>> CPU: PowerPC
>> Available audio output drivers:
>>         oss     OSS/ioctl audio output
>>         nas     NAS audio output
>>         mpegpes DVB audio output
>>         null    Null audio output
>>         pcm     RAW PCM/WAVE file writer audio output
>>
>> I see no alsa driver listed though I have the alsa wrapper for oss
>> installed.  ??
>>

Ack. That's a problem. Did you recompile your mplayer yourself? You might want
to add support for alsa and esd if you did.

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> I found that if I run:
> killall esd
> I then have sound in mplayer. I had seen a post somewhere that made
> mention of a script to do this automatically on log in. I have sound
> issues anyway so this is at least a bearable solution.

esd isn't really necessary now that alsa does dmix in-kernel.

> I did change my alsa config to force all sound processes to stop after
> suspending but that didn't seem to help:
> 
> 
> # Configuration file for alsa-base
> 
> # List, separated by spaces, the names of modules that should be
> # unloaded, if present, before the machine is suspended. Use the
> # special name "all" if you would like all ALSA sound modules to be
> # removed. The modules that are removed will be loaded again after
> # resume.  Currently this only has an effect if you are using apmd.
> # Examples:
> #     Value         Action at suspend time
> #     ""            Do nothing
> #     "snd-cs46xx"  Stop sound processes and remove the snd-cs46xx module
> #     "all"         Stop sound processes and remove all ALSA modules
> force_unload_modules_before_suspend="all"
> 
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