[MPlayer-users] Re: mplayer audio problems

[Ergzay]

On 2005/11/01, at 0:39, skuse wrote:
> RC wrote:
>> On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 14:46:00 -0500
>> skuse <mskuse at iname.com> wrote:
>>> I have a bunch of divx videos with uLaw audio encoding.  Originally 
>>> created a user account and everything worked fine.  Eventually (a 
>>> few weeks or so) the audio quit working.  Hmmm, tried root and 
>>> worked fine.... Long story short created another user account and 
>>> all was
>>> well  again... for a while.
>>
>> alsa?  OSS?  arts?  esd?
>> I suggest you post the output of mplayer when sound isn't working... 
>> That should give us some clue as to your problem.
>
> I tried each of them (with the -ao option command line as well as the 
> gui control), none seem to make a difference.  There are no errors 
> indicted in the output (will post shortly).  Also note that if the 
> volume is cranked all the way up (praying for no system sounds to go 
> off!!!) you can just barely hear the audio from divx file so I know it 
> is able to get it from the files.... just the level is wayyyy to 
> low... Again, will post output shortly with a -v or two just to be 
> safe.

If the problem is local to mplayer you might try compiling the CVS. It 
has many fixes to bugs that were in the version your using. The audio 
is decoding fine if you can in fact hear it. It is just the level of 
the audio has gotten set really low. My personal first guess without 
having looked at the output is that maybe some program added something 
to the mplayer config files. Check ~/.mplayer/config for anything to 
change audio volume.

Ergzay