[MPlayer-users] ac3, alsa9, todays cvs version of mplayer

[Arkadiusz Miskiewicz]

I'm trying to watch some movie with AC3 sound. I'm using todays
cvs version of mplayer, alsa 0.9 from cvs, too (few days old), sb live 5.1,
inspire 5.1 5300.

Unfortunately audio doesn't work:

[misiek at arm ~]$ m -ao alsa9 -channels 6 kundun.avi
Using GNU internationalization
Original domain: messages
Original dirname: /usr/share/locale
Current domain: mplayer
Current dirname: /home/users/misiek/mplayer-test/share/locale


MPlayer CVS-021128-13:07-2.95.4 (C) 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS)

CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Duron MG Morgan (Family: 6, Stepping: 1)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE

Reading /home/users/misiek/.mplayer/codecs.conf: 47 audio & 114 video codecs
Font /home/users/misiek/.mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (210 chars)
Failed to open /dev/rtc: Permission denied (mplayer should be setuid root or /dev/rtc should be readable by the user.)
Using usleep() timing
Input config file /home/users/misiek/.mplayer/input.conf parsed : 54 binds
Setting up lirc support...

Playing kundun.avi
Detected AVI file format!
VIDEO:  [DIV3]  640x240  24bpp  23.98 fps  1106.1 kbps (135.0 kbyte/s)
Clip info: 
 Software: Nandub v1.0rc2
 Name: Kundun
 Subject: Kundun
 Artist: LEPREHAUN
 Copyright: Ripped by LEPREHAUN
 Comments: 
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52
Using SSE optimized IMDCT transform
AC3: 5.1 (3f+2r+lfe)  48000 Hz  384.0 kbit/s
Using MMX optimized resampler
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 6 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 48000->576000 (384.0 kbit)
Selected audio codec: [a52] afm:liba52 (AC3-liba52)
==========================================================================
vo: X11 running at 1600x1024 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local display)
Disabling DPMS
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffdivx] vfm:ffmpeg (FFmpeg DivX ;-) (MS MPEG-4 v3))
==========================================================================
alsa-init: testing and bugreports are welcome.
alsa-init: requested format: 48000 Hz, 6 channels, Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian)
alsa-init: 1 soundcard found, using: hw:0,0
alsa-init: unable to set channels: Invalid argument
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
couldn't open/init audio device -> no sound
Audio: no sound!!!
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Start playing...
VDec: vo config request - 640 x 240 (preferred csp: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO: [xv] 640x240 => 640x240 Planar YV12 
Successfully enabled DPMS.0% 0 0 0%


I've also tried:
-ao alsa -channels 6

==========================================================================
couldn't open/init audio device -> no sound
Audio: no sound!!!
Start playing...

and:
-ao alsa:surround -channels 6
==========================================================================
couldn't open/init audio device -> no sound
Audio: no sound!!!
Start playing...

Any ideas?
-- 
Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz    CS at FoE, Wroclaw University of Technology
arekm at sse.pl   AM2-6BONE, 1024/3DB19BBD, arekm(at)ircnet, PLD/Linux