[MPlayer-users] Re: mplayer audio problems

[skuse]

Well finally figured it out... there was a setting under kmix (Enable 
DAC) which must not be set.  For whatever reason this only affects 
mplayer and supertux, not xine/kaffeine/totem/etc. or any other games...


skuse wrote:
> Heres one that really hs me stumped.  Spending a lot of time on it but 
> no luck. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> - mplayer 1.0pre7 with suse 9.2 on a x86 box
> 
> I have a bunch of divx videos with uLaw audio encoding.  Originally 
> created a user account and everything worked fine.  Eventually (a few 
> weeks or so) the audio quit working.  Hmmm, tried root and worked 
> fine.... Long story short created another user account and all was well 
> again... for a while.
> 
> A week or so later the same problem, except no audio as root this time 
> or any new user account for that matter....
> 
> 
> First big note, audio works fine on rest system for everything (system 
> sounds, test audio, etc.) else except supertux game (clue???)  Made sure 
> all audio level were maxxed in kmix just to be safe.
> 
> So, first tried to make what was there work with overriding audio and 
> video output options (-ov and -oa).. no luck.  Tried to reinstall 
> mplayer RPM from ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/9.2/i686, 
> still no luck.  I have another machine that is almost identical and the 
> same videos play and sound fine.  Even tried different audio cards and 
> no luck....