mplayer and arts?

Mnemia · Guru Joined: 17 May 2002 Posts: 476

I've been trying to get audio working in mplayer to no avail. I'm using the built in kernel sound drivers and the sdl driver in mplayer for sound. Sound works fine in xmms and other apps under KDE3 using the artsd plugin. I definitely have arts and sdl in my USE variable, and artsd is definitely running. Sound also works fine in any other SDL app, such as lbreakout2. The weird thing is that whether or not sound works seems to be pretty transient; sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. But below is what happens when it doesn't work.

Here's the relevant error in mplayer's output:

c_kuzmanic · Posted: Sat May 18, 2002 7:15 am Post subject:

Hi;

Use "mplayer -ao sdl" to get it to work under arts.

Mnemia · Guru Joined: 17 May 2002 Posts: 476

huw · Apprentice Joined: 13 May 2002 Posts: 220 Location: UK

I've never used arts (I run GNOME) but to use mplayer with esd I use

Mnemia · Guru Joined: 17 May 2002 Posts: 476

TomorrowPlusX · Posted: Sun May 19, 2002 4:59 am Post subject: Broken record

Sounds like you're having the *exact* same trouble as me -- though I'm running alsa, instead of kernel sound.

If you manage to figure this out, let me know, could you? I'm poking around, and if I figure it out, I'll let you know.

Mnemia · Guru Joined: 17 May 2002 Posts: 476

Hmmm...after some more investigation I discovered that NO SDL apps on my system are actually using arts for sound output. SDL is apparently only using /dev/dsp directly. I know this because sound works in some sdl apps other than mplayer when arts is suspended but NOT when it is running. Does anyone have any clue how to make SDL use arts for output?

Mnemia · Guru Joined: 17 May 2002 Posts: 476

Oh, and I checked my USE variables and recompiled libsdl just to make sure that arts was in there and it definitely is. The configure part definitely detected the arts libs and they were indeed compiled in. I checked the output.

NewbieTim · n00b Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 57

i have the same problem with my mplayer (also kernel compiled sound support). But my mplayer seems to use arts, but i get no output. Here's the text output:
AO: [sdl] 44100Hz Stereo Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian)
SDL: Samplerate: 44100Hz Channels: Stereo Format Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian)
SDL: using arts audio driver
SDL: Unable to open audio: No available audio device
couldn't open/init audio device -> NOSOUND
Audio: no sound!!!

CowboyNeal · Posted: Mon May 27, 2002 10:12 pm Post subject:

Mallrats · Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2002 1:32 pm Post subject:

I get artsdsp not found, where is it
I have kde-base/arts installed
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andee · n00b Joined: 04 Jun 2002 Posts: 41

Hi
I had exactly the same problem.
To solve it I went to Control Center/Sound/Sound Server press Sound I/O tab and I checked Use custom sound device and wrote there /dev/sound/dsp1
I haven't had problems with sound in mplayer since then.
The second solution is to under Control Center/Sound/Sound Server/General uncheck start arts soundserver on kde startup.
I hope that helps.
gl

Mallrats · Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2002 10:54 pm Post subject:

andee sounds like he has the solution to my problem, but I don't have kde emerged. Does anyone know how to manually set this without the KDE control panel?
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andee · n00b Joined: 04 Jun 2002 Posts: 41

Hi
That's two command that help you:
one is artsshell and another one is artswrapper add --help to this command and you will know all options.
The command line i'm using now is like this:
//usr/kde/cvs/bin/artsd -F 5 -S 4096 -D /dev/dsp1 -s 3 -m artsmessage -l 3 -f

I hope that helps