[MPlayer-users] Cannot find codec for audio format

[Geoffrey Leach]

On 07/17/2009 04:14:16 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> On 07/17/2009 03:18:06 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> > Geoffrey Leach <geoff <at> hughes.net> writes:
> > 
> > > mplayer -dr -tskeepbroken -ac mp3 -afm mp3lib -vo vdpau -alang en 
> > > foo.mp2
> > > Same result (with approriate change) from -ac faad -afm faad, ac
> > ffmp2 
> > > -afm ffmpeg, -ao alsa -ac hwmpa
> > 
> > The idea is not to select ac at all, but let mplayer decide that 
> > ffac3
> > and a52
> > are the right choices.
> 
> Not something I would have tried. Thanks.
> 
> Unfortunately the result is the same asw with -ao alsa, except that 
> mplayer complains that my system is too slow (without the -ao alsa). 
> FWIW, I'm running the latest alsa driver.
> 
> One question occurred as I'm writing this. Could the fact that I'm 
> outputting to HDMI be at all relevant?

Replying to my own post ...

Yes, indeed it is. The solution (im my case, at least) to _some_ OTA-
recorded mp2 is -ao alsa:device=plughw=0.3 Which was (almost) staring 
me in the face in the man page, but the significance of it was not 
obvious.