[nmglug] mplayer alsa

[Sam Noble]

On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 15:04 -0700, BrianO'Keefe wrote:



> 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? 

That means that maybe:

>>>> > >>> @ubuntu:~$ mplayer -ao help

is not calling the same mplayer you're normally running.

$which mplayer

would tell us something.

>>> > >> 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.

$gnome-sound-properties
tab "sound"
untick the first check box.