[Wolves] Movie Players

[Lee Jordan]

If you want to get to the source of the problem. Disable aRts in the KDE
Control Centre, try Mplayer again and see if aRts had a hold of your
soundcard. Without aRts running the Open Source Sound System or ALSA should
in theroy kick in. If that doesn't work fire up a Konsole (x-term, terminal,
insert-your-fav-term-here) and type

mplayer <your-file-here>

If you can read the messages that are given you might see /dev/null or
/dev/dsp or something like that. If you see "Permission denied" then
something is really holding on to your sound card. Again try this with aRts
and with out. if you can't read the messages type the following on one line

mplayer file.mp3 >> error.log && cat error.log | more

this should log the output messages to a file called error.log in your
current directory (pwd will tell you where you are). You will have to stop
the file playing if you want to immediatly read the error file by hitting
the escape key as you are trying to view video.

If aRts is to blame then set the time out of idle-ness for aRts in the KDE
Control Centre, in theory this says to aRts that no sound has been played
for a few seconds so sleep for a bit, thus giving other apps a chance to
steal the soundcard. If it's something else then try running mplayer as
root, if not look on google to see if anyone else has had the same issue.

Hope that has helped
Lee



-----Original Message-----
From: wolves-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:wolves-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk]On Behalf Of Peter Cannon
Sent: 22 March 2004 17:23
To: Wolverhampton Linux User Group
Subject: [Wolves] Movie Players


Hi All

Couple of days ago I mentioned that I was trying to get Mplayer working
on my laptop. I have now got the video/picture working (don't know how
just clicked on things and it suddenly worked) but no sound.
Mplayer says I do not have a sound card but thats cobblers as I have
nice sounds for my apps you know window max & min etc.

My question is two fold

1: Any idea how to get the sound working I think the laptop works of
arts (am I barking up the wrong tree?) the manual says:

Audio type: Sound Blaster (software emulation)
Audio Controller: for the J-series, ESS Maestro 3I
Stereo Conversion: 16bit analog
Interfaces internal: PCI bus/AC97

2: What do you people use for avi, wav etc?

Regards

Peter Cannon

peter at cannon-linux.freeserve.co.uk


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