[MPlayer-users] MPlayer-0.90rc1: No sound when playing a movie as normal user, but ok if root

[Corey Hickey]

Eric wrote:

>[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>Hi,
>
>I'm using RH-8.0 with Gnome2 and I have installed
>MPlayer-0.90rc1. If I want to play the trailer for the
>Lord of the rings: The two towers, then the video is
>fine but I got *no sound*. But if I'm root, video and
>sound are ok! If I use xmms or play Quake3 the sound
>is there...
>
>Here the message I get:
>
>couldn't open/init audio device -> no sound
>SoundConverterEndConversion:0
>SoundConverterClose:0
>Audio: no sound!!!
>Start playing...
>
>Any idea? 
>Thanks
>  
>
What ao device are you using? Try 'mplayer -ao help' and try some of the 
ones
listed (alsa9, arts, sdl, and oss are likely candidates).

Also, you can check if you have access to /dev/dsp by typing 'echo > 
/dev/dsp'.
That shouldn't do anything, but you'll get an access denied message if 
you don't
have permissions..

If you don't have any luck, please re-post and show the entire output of
mplayer your_movie.file

-Corey