[MPlayer-users] Can I play audio from microphone input with mplayer?

[Dominique Michel]

Le Sun, 19 Jan 2014 07:46:19 -0800 (PST),
James Board <jpboard2 at yahoo.com> a écrit :

> Is it possible to use mplayer to play audio from the microphone input?
> If so, how (I'm on a Linux PC running CentOS)?
> 
> Context: I connected the audio output of my DVR to the PC's microphone
> input jack and I'm trying to play that audio through the PC's
> speakers.  Does ! make sense?  I don't need to record the audio,
> merely play it.

If your mixer is correctly set up, you don't need to. It will work out
of the box with jack. If the mic is connected to another sound card
than the one used by jack, you need to set up a bridge. It is different
possibilities (.asoundrc, zita bridges).

> 
> If this isn't possible with mplayer, what would be the correct tool
> to use to do this?  Seems like it should be a common thing.
> 
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