On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 11:51:43PM +0200, Tinus Kotzé wrote: > I prefer mplayer and have downloaded source and compiled it. If I play a > movie with sound disabled (mplayer -ao null XXX.XXX) it works perfectly. > As soon as I leave mplayer to select the output device it basicly > freezes. If I select alsa9 for sound, it basicly freezes. Hm.. i don't know if everything works fine at your compile time, but what helps me a lot in such situations is "strace.
"strace mplayer" with the options and a lot of output you get. Maybe you find there an old lib or some other things. Maybe its a bug in the alsa driver? I mean.. my mplayer with alsa runs just fine... Greetings, Roman -- www: http://www.romanofski.de email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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