[MPlayer-users] Intel HD audio (azalia), alsa 1.0.8 and mplayer problem

[Iakobos Triantafillou]

Reimar Döffinger wrote:

>Hi,
>On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 10:55:24AM +0000, Iakobos Triantafillou wrote:
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>>With -ao alsa:
>>
>>alsa-init: setup for 1/2 channel(s)
>>alsa-init: 1 soundcard found, using: default
>>(stays there indefinately)
>>
>>With -ao oss:
>>
>>audio_setup: using '/dev/dsp' dsp device
>>audio_setup: using '/dev/mixer' mixer device
>>audio_setup: using 'pcm' mixer device
>>[AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Device or
>>resource busy
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>>
>
>These two will be solved by apt-get remove --purge esd
>Or if you dislike the extremes, use killall esd. But the former is a
>better reaction towards esd IMHO.
>Or if you have /dev/dsp1 or in alsa hw:0,1 you can use those (see
>manpage for alsa and oss suboptions).
>
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>>With -ao esd:
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>>[AO ESD] esd_open_sound failed: Success
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>I like that kind of error message...
>Ask the maintainer of ao_esd.c - oh, wait that is yet another of the
>MPlayer parts that do not have a maintainer...
>Now seriously, I had a quick look at the code and couldn't see anything
>obviously wrong...
>
>Greetings,
>Reimar Döffinger
>
>
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Thanks for your insights Reimar :-)

The only problem is that when i use alsa standalone I don't have control 
over the volume anywhere. For example in beep-media-player the volume 
bar does not work, same in mplayer / and * simply don't work. Do you by 
any chance have any idea about that as well? (only by alsa-mixer if I 
lower the PC Speaker volume I have any control over it and this is not 
very practical for most situations)

Thank you very much for your help. Really appreciated :-)

I.T.