[nmglug] mplayer

[BrianO'Keefe]

Anthony Martinez wrote:
> 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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Thanks Anthony. I had done my own install and that wasn't working as I
couldn't get the gui to work even tho I compiled it with the gui. I
installed it with my package manager, synaptic. I guess I could
uninstall with synaptic and reinstall from source. Advice?