[MPlayer-users] re: "cant generate tables" plus: no sound, ever!

[specialist33]

 > Hi

 > On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 12:15:14PM +0000, specialist33 wrote:
 > > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read 
DOCS/bugreports.html]
 > > More experiementation shows that "cant generate tables" pops up every
 > > few frames during playback of AVI's.

 > Afaik this is a message about freetype fonts. Check your setup there. 
 > It
 > shouldn't effect video/audio, just subtitles or osd.

! Yikes. If my memories of freetype + linux are correct, that gives me 
many days of things to try...:(. As mentioned, I do need to fix it, 
because it makes videos flicker (because of the repeated popups!). 
Annoying really (goes off to try and find command line options to 
disable everything to do with subtitles)...

Thanks.

 > > I've also now noticed that when attempting to playback anything from
 > > ordinary MP3's to MPEG's to AVI's, I get no sound (this is on a
 > *snip*

 > > AO: [null] 44100Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian) (2 bps)

 > No sound, hmm, I wonder why.... ;)
 > Hint: Try mplayer -ao help

Heh. I read that and thought it looked OK :). -ao help offered lots of 
options, and the docs say oss is default, but I just tried manually "-ao 
oss" and lo! sound! :). Thanks for the pointer there...

(from http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/devices.html#experiences):

  "If you have an OSS driver, first try -ao oss (this is the default)"