[MPlayer-users] SDL/aRts audio driver fails

[brep068gw001 at sneakemail.com]

Hello,

I've been trying to get mplayer to use my aRts sound server to play audio, but I've had no success.

I compiled mplayer with SDL sound support (which was autodetected in the ./configure step).  I also have the SDL libraries with aRts sound support compiled (running Debian Unstable with the libsdl1.2debian-all package installed, which supports oss, esound, alsa, and arts).  My aRts audio server works beautifully in KDE.

When I try to play a video that has sound and I use the '-ao sdl:arts' option, this is the output from mplayer:

[paul at paul:videos]$ mplayer -ao sdl:arts FoodRace2.avi 


MPlayer 0.90pre4-2.95.4 (C) 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS!)

CPU vendor name: AuthenticAMD  max cpuid level: 1
CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon TB Thunderbird (Type: 6, Stepping: 2)
extended cpuid-level: 6
CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with features: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx
vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 24 and 32 bits/pixel (":0.0" => local display)
Reading /home/paul/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open '/home/paul/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /home/paul/local/share/mplayer/codecs.conf: 34 audio & 92 video codecs
font: can't open file: /home/paul/.mplayer/font/font.desc
font: can't open file: /home/paul/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc
Linux RTC init error: Permission denied
Using usleep() timing
Can't open input config file /home/paul/.mplayer/input.conf : No such file or directory
Falling back on default (hardcoded) config
SKIN dir 1: '/home/paul/.mplayer/Skin'
SKIN dir 2: '/home/paul/local/share/mplayer/Skin'
Playing FoodRace2.avi
Detected AVI file format!
MainAVIHeader.dwFlags: (2064) HAS_INDEX TRUST_CKTYPE
VIDEO:  [DIVX]  320x216  24bpp  24.00 fps  555.1 kbps (67.8 kbyte/s)
[V] filefmt:3  fourcc:0x58564944  size:320x216  fps:24.00  ftime:=0.0417
Detected audio codec: [pcm] drv:2 (Uncompressed PCM)
Selecting Audio Decoder: [pcm] Uncompressed PCM audio decoder
AUDIO: srate=22050  chans=1  bps=2  sfmt=0x10  ratio: 44100->44100
==========================================================================
Opening Video Decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
libavcodec: CPU flags: mmx mmxext 3dnow
Detected video codec: [ffodivx] drv:5 prio:0 (FFmpeg MPEG-4)
==========================================================================
AO: [sdl] 22050Hz Mono Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian)
SDL: Samplerate: 22050Hz Channels: Mono Format Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian)
SDL: using arts audio driver
SDL: Unable to open audio: No available audio device
couldn't open/init audio device -> NOSOUND
Audio: no sound!!!
Start playing...
looks like this file was encoded with (divx4/(old)xvid/opendivx) -> forcing low_delay flag
VDec: vo config request - 320 x 216, Planar YV12  
[PP] Sorry, postprocessing is not available
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO: [xv] 320x216 => 320x216 Planar YV12 
Disabling DPMS
stat: 1
*** [vo] Exporting mp_image_t, 320x216x12bpp YUV planar, 103680 bytes
V:   3.2   79   5%  4%  0.0% 0 0 0%
...


I have also tried playing my video through artsdsp (after reading the list archives), but when I try that I get the error message "Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy  -> no sound".

If anyone has any insight on either of these problems, I'd love to hear it.  Or if you need more information from me, I'll be happy to provide it.

Thanks,

Paul Hoepfner-Homme