Video ok, no sound just for MPlayer (WAS: [MPlayer-users] Re: Oly 3 sec of video)

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 06:26:44PM +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Sunday, 04 April 2004 at 17:34, Matthew W. Miller wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 11:55:04AM -0300, Roberto Fernandes Tavares Neto wrote:
> > >> On Sunday, 04 April 2004 at 15:39, Roberto Fernandes Tavares Neto wrote:
> > >> > Does anyone knows how to solve this one? Alsa is ok (as far as I
> > >> > can see), but what is the logical reason to MPlayer cannot use the
> > >> > sound device?
> > 
> > Probably that ALSA support wasn't compiled into MPlayer...
> > 
> > >But how do I set it to alsa? The "mplayer -ao help" gives me:
> > >Available audio output drivers:
> > >        mpegpes Mpeg-PES audio output
> > >        oss     OSS/ioctl audio output
> > >        sdl     SDLlib audio output
> > >        null    Null audio output
> > >        pcm     RAW PCM/WAVE file writer audio output
> > >        plugin  Plugin audio output
> > 
> > ... which this list seems to verify.  You'll likely need to install the
> > appropriate developer package for ALSA (likely the library package with
> > '-dev' or '-devel' added on), and recompile and reinstall MPlayer.
> > 	That's assuming you compiled MPlayer from source to begin with. 
> > If you used a packaged binary and there's no separate package to add
> > ALSA support, then see your distribution/OS's documentation for how to
> > file a polite feature request to the packager.
> 
> He's using the official RPMs which have no ALSA support by default.
> He should try rebuilding the source RPM with "--with alsa" option.
> I've never had any feedback from alsa users, so I'll be happy to help
> him solve any build issues.

Why does anyone need "alsa support" anyway? ALSA provides the standard
oss api in addition to its windows-ish library-based api, so you can
just use ao_oss.

Rich