On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 05:52:25PM +0200, LeVA wrote: > 2006. július 8. 16:49, > "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -> debian-user@lists.debian.org,: > > On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 11:47:16AM +0200, LeVA wrote: > > > 2006. július 7. 16:11, > > > "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > -> debian-user@lists.debian.org,: > > > > 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. > > > > > > I see now... So you had the light show on Win, and you thought that > > > mplayer wasn't working right, because it wasn't displaying the light > > > show? That's probably a winmediaplayer thingie. You won't have that with > > > mplayer (thanks god :) > > > > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > And if you could attach the config file, the list readers could examine > > > it, and help you filtering the bad options which causes the stopping. > > > > I experimented. Instead of copying mplayer.conf to config I simply > > edited config as shown: > > > > # Write your default config options here! > > ao=alsa > > > > This single entry is enough to cause mplayer to stop after it loads the > > buffer. Remove the line and mplayer works again. Lest there be any > > doubt I re-ran alsoconf and am attaching the output of lsmod and locate > > alsa. > I can not go further with this really. I don't know how the marillat packaged > mplayer was compiled. You can run 'mplayer -ao help' and see if there are > more alsa* audio outs. There used to be alsa9 for alsa-0.9 and alsa for > alsa-1.0 (IIRC, but maybe those were different names...). In the recent > mplayer versions, there is only one alsa audio out, and that's called 'alsa'. > It works with Alsa-0.9.x and Alsa-1.x. You could try to use the other alsa > audio out, if there is any. Mplayer must work with one or another ao, if it > works without the config file. I see you have the OSS emulation configured, > and the modules loaded, so you should try to use the ao=oss, and see if it is > working. > Btw, you've attached mplayer's output, but cropped out the AO information, so > I don't know which audio out is used by default by your mplayer. If you play > a file with mplayer (without specifying any ao drivers. neither in the > command line with -ao, nor in the config file with ao=), you can see a line > like this: > AO: [alsa] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample) > or > AO: [oss] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample) > > You can tell what is the default from that. So you should probably write that > to your .mplayer/config file.
Thanks Daniel, You're right. I tried playing a .wav file with mplayer (normally I use wavp) and got the line AO: [oss] 44100Hz 3ch s16le (2 bytes per sample). I then put the line ao=oss in config and mplayer started normally. As you can see from the attached unedited mplayer.conf file the audio section seems to indicate that ao=alsa should be used. For now I'll just stick with a blank config file as the defaults work fine. Tom # # MPlayer configuration file # # Configuration files are read system-wide from /usr/local/etc/mplayer.conf # and per user from ~/.mplayer/config, where per-user settings override # system-wide settings, all of which are overrriden by the command line. # # The configuration file settings are the same as the command line # options without the preceding '-'. # # See the CONFIGURATION FILES section in the man page # for a detailed description of the syntax. ################## # video settings # ################## # Specify default video driver (see -vo help for a list). #vo=xv # Use SDL video with the aalib subdriver by default. #vo = sdl:aalib # FBdev driver: # # mode to use (read from fb.modes) #fbmode = 640x480-120 # # location of the fb.modes file #fbmodeconfig = /etc/fb.modes # Specify your monitor timings for the vesa and fbdev video output drivers. # See /etc/X11/XF86Config for timings. Be careful; if you specify settings # that exceed the capabilities of your monitor, you may damage it. # # horizontal frequency range (k stands for 1000) #monitor-hfreq = 31.5k-50k,70k # # vertical frequency range #monitor-vfreq = 50-90 # # dotclock (or pixelclock) range (m stands for 1000000) #monitor-dotclock = 30M-300M # Start in fullscreen mode by default. #fs=yes # Change to a different videomode when going fullscreen. #vm=yes # Override the autodetected color depth, may need 'vm=yes' as well. #bpp=0 # Enable software scaling (powerful CPU needed) for video output # drivers that do not support hardware scaling. #zoom=yes # standard monitor size, with square pixels #monitoraspect=4:3 # Use this for a widescreen monitor, non-square pixels. #monitoraspect=16:9 # Keep the player window on top of all other windows. #ontop=yes ################## # audio settings # ################## # Specify default audio driver (see -ao help for a list). ao=alsa # Use SDL audio driver with the esd subdriver by default. #ao = sdl:esd # Specify the mixer device. #mixer = /dev/mixer # Resample the sound to 44100Hz with the lavcresample audio filter. #af=lavcresample=44100 ################## # other settings # ################## # Drop frames to preserve audio/video sync. #framedrop = yes # Specify your preferred skin here (skins are searched for in # /usr/local/share/mplayer/skins/<name> and ~/.mplayer/skins/<name>). #skin = Abyss # Resample the font alphamap. # 0 plain white fonts # 0.75 very narrow black outline (default) # 1 narrow black outline # 10 bold black outline #ffactor = 0.75 # cache settings # # Use 8MB input cache by default. #cache = 8192 # # Prefill 20% of the cache before starting playback. #cache-min = 20.0 # # Prefill 50% of the cache before restarting playback after the cache emptied. #cache-seek-min = 50 # DVD: Display English subtitles if available. #slang = en # DVD: Play English audio tracks if available. #alang = en # get a default OSD font from fontconfig fontconfig = yes font = "Sans" subfont-text-scale = 3 # You can also include other configuration files. #include = /path/to/the/file/you/want/to/include > > Daniel > > -- > LeVA > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
