mplayer, xmms alsa

zerogeny · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 17 Apr 2002 Posts: 85

xmms no longer plays movies...
so i tried mplayer and that plays most movies but i cant get it to work with sound (i use alsa for that)

help me :?:

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taskara · Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2002 4:33 am Post subject:

do u have alsa support in your use variables in make.conf ?

ie
USE="alsa somethingelse somethingelse blahblahblah"

prolific · Apprentice Joined: 19 Apr 2002 Posts: 237

Goto console and type "mplayer -ao help"

That will list several available audio output drivers. Try and see which one works for you. "sdl" works for me.

So for me I would type in the console "mplayer -ao sdl -gui"

sven · Apprentice Joined: 19 Apr 2002 Posts: 274

I have a different problem with xmms. As soon as I want to play a mp3 file with it, it freezes. I have to kill the process then. I reinstalled xmms and set the USE=alsa flag but still, same problem. Playing mp3 files with Noatun works fine though. Any ideas?

BradN · Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2002 2:20 pm Post subject:

sven:

If you have a second dsp output on your sound card (sound blaster 16 pci works very well for this), tell xmms to use /dev/dsp1 with oss (may be different or impossible for alsa - I don't know).

Otherwise, run xmms with artsdsp so arts routes it through itself:

artsdsp xmms

(use oss output on /dev/dsp as usual)

or.... compile the arts output plugin for xmms.

sven · Apprentice Joined: 19 Apr 2002 Posts: 274

zerogeny · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 17 Apr 2002 Posts: 85

is it possible to get 4 speakers working in alsa?
or am i stuck with 2?
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xj220 · n00b Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 11

It is possible to get it to work...

Im using the latest Alsa [dont know what version] and a soundblaster Live!
And i can use my both channels...

The "trick" is that you have to go to the control as far to the right as possible in alsamixer and MUTE it... (Dont ask me why), then you change your other channels volume with sourund wave or something in the middle of alsamixer.

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