[MPlayer-users] problem with ac3 playback

[Dominik Mierzejewski]

On Wednesday, 11 June 2003, Corey Hickey wrote:
> Dave Alden wrote:
[...]
> [SNIP]
> >audio_setup: frags:  16/16  (4096 bytes/frag)  free:  65536
> >AO: [oss] 48000Hz 2ch AC3 (1 bps)
> >AO: Description: OSS/ioctl audio output
> >AO: Author: A'rpi
> [SNIP]
> 
> Looks like you're using oss audio output (either from creative's drivers
> or alsa oss emulation). Try loading the alsa drivers, if you haven't
> already, and add '-ao alsa9' to your mplayer command.
> 
> If that works, you can add ao=alsa9 to your mplayer config file.

For that he'll have to compile MPlayer from the source or rebuild the
source RPM (--with alsa). ALSA is not supported in the RPM packaged version
(which he's using).

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