[MPlayer-users] sharing sound device

Fri Nov 8 00:19:02 CET 2002

well... I'm still messing with this.  it seems to be mplayer's problem,
definitely.  I've run aRts and tested it with XMMS and the media player and
they work fine but when calling mplayer with "-ao arts" I get no sound.
help!!

-----Original Message-----
From: mplayer-users-admin at mplayerhq.hu
[mailto:mplayer-users-admin at mplayerhq.hu]On Behalf Of Erick Calder
Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 10:26 AM
To: mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu
Subject: RE: [MPlayer-users] sharing sound device

[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> your choices:
>
> arts is running:
>
> -ao arts
>
> esd is running:
>
> -ao sdl:esd

yes, what my original message stated (perhaps not so clearly) is that
neither works.  if I use the output device directly I get sound but if I run
the ESD daemon and use "-ao sdl:esd" I get the error message I previously
posted.  same with arts.  I don't see a switch for greater verbosity of
output on mplayer... what else can I try?

-----Original Message-----
From: mplayer-users-admin at mplayerhq.hu
[mailto:mplayer-users-admin at mplayerhq.hu]On Behalf Of gabor farkas
Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 6:55 AM
To: mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu
Subject: Re: [MPlayer-users] sharing sound device

[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 10:17:11PM -0800, Erick Calder wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> I want to be able to run mpg123 and mplayer at the same time so it was
> suggested to me that using ESD would allow me to do this.
>
> I thus ran the ESD daemon and tried "-ao sdl:esd" but I get:
>
> > DL: using esd audio driver
> > SDL: Unable to open audio: No available audio device
> > couldn't open/init audio device -> no sound
> > Audio: no sound!!!
>
> I see that section 5.4 of the FAQ states:
>
> "A: Are you running KDE or GNOME with the arts or esd sound daemon? Try
> disabling the sound daemon, or use the -ao arts switch to make MPlayer use
> arts."
>
> since I seem to need to disable the ESD daemon then I gather it should not
> be running... I shut it down and again tried "-ao sdl:esd" with the same
> result... so I get taht error whether I'm running esd or not... wtf?
>
> I've also tried -ao arts with same result.
>
> if I am not running the ESD daemon and run "mplayer myfile" it works fine.

> I get audio...  what am I missing here?

your choices:

arts is running:

-ao arts

esd is running:

-ao sdl:esd

----------------
or you can kill your esd or arts server, and use the native audio
output:

-ao oss (probably, it can be -ao alsa09 too, depends on your sound card
drivers )...

by default mplayer assumes -ao oss, so if you don't specify it on
command line or in a config file then
"mplayer x.avi" equals to "mplayer -ao oss x.avi"

bye,
gabor

>
> I've also done searches on Google for an answer but find zilch.
>
> thx - erick
>
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