On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 22:11:04 -0500 (EST) Stephen Powell <zlinux...@wowway.com> shared this with us all:
>On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 21:35:39 -0500 (EST), Charlie wrote: >> Now I have sound working, though I might listen to an audio CD. Yeah >> right. Missing something again. Can't get an audio CD playing with >> Totem. >> >> I've never used Mplayer but though it can read hardrive audio files >> and play them it can't play audio CD's or won't mount them on my >> system, and being audio files I can't manually mount them either. >> >> Googled and found some stuff, but nothing that would help. >> >> Using Debian Squeeze 2.6.32-trunk-686 >> >> $ mplayer -cdrom-device /dev/media/cdrom1 cdda://track1 >> >> gives this error message: >> >> MPlayer SVN-r30075 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team >> Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory >> Can't init input joystick >> mplayer: could not connect to socket >> mplayer: No such file or directory >> Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote >> control. >> >> Playing cdda://track1. >> The start option must be an integer: track1 >> Option hostname: Error while parsing m_span parameter start (track1) >> Struct cdda, field hostname parsing error: track1 >> Can't open CDDA device. >> Failed to open cdda://track1. >> >> >> Exiting... (End of file) >> >> Could anyone please let me know what I might put into >> ~/.mplayer/config to possibly make this work? > >I'm no expert on mplayer. In fact, I don't think I've ever used it. >But it looks to me like it's trying to do something with your joystick! >Don't ask me why. > >Personally, I like cdplay. It's part of the cdtool package. >It's also a command line tool. The thing I like most about cdplay >is that it's extremely efficient. It just sends the "play" command >to the CD drive and then terminates. The CD drive itself does the >digital to analog conversion itself and sends an analog audio signal >directly to your sound card. No digital data is transferred across >the bus. > >Most modern media players "rip" >the audio data from the CD drive as digital data and then send it to >the sound card. That gives you more flexibility if you want to >extract audio to your hard drive. But if all you want to do is listen >to a music CD, cdplay is an excellent tool. It does require that >there be an audio cable between your CD drive and your sound card, >though. And the CD channel in Alsamixer must be unmuted and turned >up. Since this is an analog input signal, it may not be adjustable by >the master volume control, depending on your audio chipset. The CD >volume control may operate independently of the master volume control. > >Other useful commands in the cdtool package are cdstop, cdeject, >etc. Thanks Stephen, It comes up in my search as: wmcdplay and I have an Acer laptop that I use as a desktop [we only have solar power] so not certain there is a cable connection? Usually not included in laptops I think, but will give it a larrup. Thank you, Charlie -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 ..................................................... I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. ....Henry David Thoreau ..................................................... Debian GNU/Linux - just the best way to create magic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
