no sound with mplayer

archivis · n00b Joined: 30 Nov 2002 Posts: 14 Location: louisiana

I've got a problem with mplayer - though games and xmms have sound working just fine - when I play something (anything) in mplayer I get no audio. The same goes for xawtv now that I think about it (not normally a problem - that's just used an input for my ps2 which is otherwise wired straight into my speakers).

I've got a soundblaster live platinum 5.1...and I'm just running off the kernel module for sound. Anyone know what mplayer (and apparently xawtv) are looking for and not finding soundwise?
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darktux · Posted: Sat Nov 30, 2002 6:13 pm Post subject:

Perhaps the VIDEO volume is down, or muted? Check your mixer's settings. Or try rasing the volume on mplayer.
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iKiddo · Guru Joined: 27 Jun 2002 Posts: 341 Location: Europe?

You probably don't have the correct sound driver selected. You'd want something like 'mplayer -ao oss/alsa/...'
Try looking through the documentation untril you come across a sound driver that works.

darktux · Posted: Sat Nov 30, 2002 10:42 pm Post subject:

iKiddo:

If the games work fine, then I'll bet OSS or OSS emulation, is beeing used, therefore mplayer shouldn't have any problem at all playing the sound wihtout any switches required.
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piol · n00b Joined: 01 Dec 2002 Posts: 8

mplayer requires a little push sometimes something along the lines of: