[nmglug] mplayer alsa

[BrianO'Keefe]

Sam Noble wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 15:04 -0700, BrianO'Keefe wrote:
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>> 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? 
>>     
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> That means that maybe:
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>>>>>>>>> @ubuntu:~$ mplayer -ao help
>>>>>>>>>                   
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> is not calling the same mplayer you're normally running.
>
> $which mplayer
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> would tell us something.
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Here's the output:
/usr/local/bin/mplayer
I checked synaptic and that mplayer version is installed in /usr/bin and
it will not run at all!
>  /usr/bin/gmplayer
> MPlayer 2:0.99+1.0pre7try2+cvs20060117-0ubuntu8 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
> AltiVec found
> CPU: PowerPC
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> 91 audio & 204 video codecs
> Failed to open /dev/rtc: No such file or directory (it should be
> readable by the user.)
> Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0
> Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory
> Can't init input joystick
> Setting up LIRC support...
> mplayer: could not connect to socket
> mplayer: No such file or directory
> Failed to open LIRC support.
> You will not be able to use your remote control.
> [skin] file ( /usr/share/mplayer/Skin/Blue/skin ) not found.
> Selected skin ( Blue ) not found, trying 'default'...
> [skin] file ( /usr/share/mplayer/Skin/default/skin ) not found.
> Skin not found (default).


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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.
>>>>>>>               
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> $gnome-sound-properties
> tab "sound"
> untick the first check box.
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I did and it seems to work! I really hope that I'm providing some humor,
at least!
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