On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 10:26:28PM +0200, LeVA wrote: [...] > > > > When my daughter who is still wedded to windows listens to this station > > > > on line there is a continually changing light show in the window as the > > > > music plays. This makes me think that somehow my setup is incomplete.
[...] > Okay, I'm a little confused here :) I can see that in testing version 3.21 of > mplayerplug-in is packaged. Although I'm using 3.25 (from sources) I assume > they are working quite the same, and I really don't know what kind of light > show you are talking about. If no one else replies then I ask you to include > a small screenshot of that, or the link of the screenshot image. Neither the > mplayer nor the mplayerplug-in software contains such a feature, so I really > do not know what produces that. The stream plays fine for me too, and my > screen gets blanked with gray too (this is normal, this is mplayerplug-in). I only see the light show on my daughter's computer running Windows. I have no idea how to capture it there. As we agree that mplayer is working perfectly for the sound stream I am ready to forego the light show. > > Out of curiosity I found mplayer.conf in /etc/mplayer and the opening > > paragraph said it should be placed in ~/.mplayer/config. I copied it > > there and uncommented the line ao=alsa. Starting mplayer proceeded > > exactly as described above until the buffer filled but then no sound and > > the message, "stopped" was displayed. > Maybe you don't have alsa enabled in your kernel, and you are using OSS. If > you are using oss and you want to use that option, you must put oss after ao= > I am definitely using alsa. There must be something else in the config file that causes mplayer to stop. I'll experiment some more. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
