[MPlayer-users] Selecting the audio device in OS/X

[towb at gmx.net]

On 08.02.2012, at 17:06, Christian Ebert wrote:

>> mplayer -ao coreaudio:device_id=list
> 
> Only this errors out:

mplayer always needs something to play, even when you just want some auxiliary output, which is what the printout tells you. Maybe I should have written:

mplayer -ao coreaudio:device_id=list xy.mp4

which works fine for me with USB audio devices.