[MPlayer-users] gmplayer error: "alsa-control: unable to find simple control..."

Tue Aug 1 21:20:03 CEST 2006

On Tuesday, 01 August 2006 at 21:01, August Karlstrom wrote:
> Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> >On Tuesday, 01 August 2006 at 20:11, August Karlstrom wrote:
> >>When I try to play any file with gmplayer, an error dialogue saying:
> >>
> >>   alsa-control: unable to find simple control 'PCM',0
> >>
> >>starts flashing. The non-gui version of MPlayer works fine.
> >>
> >>I run the latest Ubuntu GNU/Linux and the version of MPlayer is
> >>
> >>   MPlayer 2:0.99+1.0pre7try2+cvs20060117-0ubuntu8
> >>
> >>My sound card is an M-Audio Audiophile 2496.
> >>
> >>Any ideas?
> >
> >Yes, your card's mixer in ALSA doesn't have a 'PCM' channel.
> 
> OK, so what do you suggest?

Make (g)mplayer use another mixer channel for volume control.
And before you ask how to do that, the answer is: man mplayer.

Regards,
R.

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