[MPlayer-DOCS] sdl subdriver name for arts
Joost Baas
joost.baas at phil.uu.nl
Sun Aug 29 18:33:27 CEST 2004
in http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/devices.html#sdl it says:
-ao sdl:name
specifies SDL audio driver to use (i.e. dsp, esd, arts)
however, the proper subdriver for aRTS output is called artsc, not
arts. Maybe it will be a better solution if the guys at libsdl would just
call it arts, like everybody does, but untill they do I think it's a good
idea to have correct documentation.
Because the manpage (or mplayer -ao help) is the first place people will look
for the solution to this problem I suggest something like this:
-ao <driver1[:device],driver2,...[,]>
Specify a priority list of audio output drivers (optionally with device) to
be used. With SDL 'device' is valid, too, it means subdriver then.
NOTE: To get a full list of available drivers, see -ao help.
If the list has a trailing ',' it will fallback to drivers not listed.
EXAMPLE:
-ao oss:/dev/dsp2,oss:/dev/dsp1,
try to use OSS with the specified sound devices and fallback to
others if it fails
-ao sdl:esd
specify the SDL subdriver (e.g. artsc, esd, alsa)
This took me about an hour to find out, and during my search I found a load of
other people with the same problem. They almost never had the sollution
though. Usually they had to do with "artsdsp mplayer -ao sdl".
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