[MPlayer-users] How to get mplayer to send correct output to USB DAC?

[John Long]

On Tue, 2018-01-30 at 18:15 +0100, Amallric Van Duyke wrote:
> You should be able to direct the audio output from mplayer just as
> you are
> doing it with the gnome settings. Select the correct sound driver (in
> your
> case I guess either alsa or pulse, probably pulse) and then make sure
> to
> point it to the correct output device. Look up documentation for alsa
> or
> pulse for the correct syntax. Good luck.

The mplayer output is going to the USB DAC but it seems like mplayer is
decoding it first and then the DAC passes it through as-is. The problem
is not directing mplayer's output to the DAC, the problem seems to be
how to get mplayer to send the correct type of stream to the DAC.

Thanks,

/jl
.