[MPlayer-users] libSDL + ARTS detection.

[Dmitry Baryshkov]

Hello!
D Richard Felker III wrote:

>Um, if the cables are connected properly inside your computer this
>shouldn't be an issue. If not, unplug the speaker from the motherboard
>and run a cable from the speaker terminal on the motherboard to the
>pc-speaker input jack on the sound card.
>
It could be  a good advice, if my sound card have such input jack :)

And returning to subj. I discovered, that right command is -ao 
sdl:artsc, but because of some bugs in libSDL, libarts and/or their 
settings, SDL cannot properly  communicate with arts daemon, and so 
SDL_OpenAudio fails. So let's close this topic, as it isn't more 
mplayer-connected.

Also suggestion for documentation-maintainers: section 2.3.1.2.3 of docs 
(SDL) in describing '-ao sdl:name' switch mentions arts. Change it 
please to 'artsc' ('arts' isn't right, at least with 1.2.4. It even 
doesn't try to communicate with arts).

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Dmitry.