[MPlayer-users] audio output to two audio cards simultaneously

Arpi arpi at thot.banki.hu
Tue Jun 25 22:20:02 CEST 2002


Hi,

> Is it possible to output audio from mplayer to two audio cards
> simultaneously? If not supported directly is there any workaround?
> I tried:
> mkpipe a-pipe
> mplayer -ao pcm -pcmfile a-pipe -nopcmheader movie.avi
> and
> tee < a-pipe /dev/dsp > /dev/dsp2
> but I hear garbage, when I tried instead of tee:
> esd &
> esdcat a-pipe then I can hear audio OK, but the video is jumpy
-ao pcm doesn't care about a-v sync, nor fluid video, it's just to dump
audio with no video playback...

> (looks like if the option -dropframe is enabled)
sure?

> So does anybody have a hint?
mayeb esd or some other audio server can dump audio to file, better
than -ao pcm


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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