[MPlayer-users] Sound in Gnome.

[joy ping]

On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 09:07:39PM +0200, Lethal Weapon wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Sat, 2002-08-24 at 22:29, joy ping wrote:
> > esd is crap, it was crap and it still is. maybe ten years ago it was a
> > nice feature, but today it is really outdated, it's not maintained for
> > several years and even the GNOME developers think about to replace it.
> > i don't know one mplayer-developer who want to add esd
> > support, at least i don't want do it.
> Too bad oss and alsa can't multiplex sounds.. So i'm unable to listen
> mp3's while playing with quack
> 

MPlayer == *Movie*Player for Linux
MPlayer != MP3Player for Linux

use xmms or whatever, im sure there is an esd plugin for it.

> 
> You'll gonna answer 'buy some decent sound-card'.. Yeah.. of course..
> That's the easy way around
> ;)

you don't need a 'decent' or expensive soundcard, even the ens1371/70
a widely used chip on 20$ soundcards has two DACs which are routed
together.
you can do for example: mplayer -ao alsa9:hw:0,1 yoursong.mp3
and playing some other sounds (quake) using OSS-emu which is mapped by default
to hw:0,0. 


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