[MPlayer-users] NO SOUND ? WHY ?

[Paul TT]

On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 13:34:21 -0400
The Wanderer <inverseparadox at comcast.net> wrote:

[...]
> The most common thing to have running which locks the audio device is a
> sound daemon, ALSA/Arts/ESD or similar. MPlayer is capable of using any
> of these, with the correct -ao method; if none of the available -ao
> methods function, then I honestly don't know what to suggest (other than
> that it *might* be a bug in your -ao driver, if you seriously think that
> that MPlayer must be the source of the problem).
> 

post the output of
mplayer -v nomefile.avi

so it's possible to view the device used