[MPlayer-users] Playing directly from a CD

[Dominik Mierzejewski]

On Tuesday, 08 July 2003, Peter Hutnick wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Dominik Mierzejewski said:
> 
> >> So I tried to build with cdparanoia, but I seem to have found a bug in
> >> RedHat's latest release of GCC (segfaults compiling MPlayer with
> >> "./configure --enable-gui --disable-mencoder ; make" which worked
> >> before up2date :-(  )
> 
> The answer to the compile problem seems to be that Red Hat's current
> release (3.2.2-5) of GCC is broken.  Going to rawhide (3.3-12) fixed it.

Have you submitted an appropriate bugzilla report yet? If not, please do.

[...]
> 3. The SDL audio driver does not seem to work well.  I run KDE so artsd is
> usually running.  For some reason MPlayer won't use arts when it can't
> open /dev/dsp directly, but it will use SDL.  The OSS driver seems to work
> well (at least at paranoia=2).  Using SDL causes skips when the system us
> "loaded" (i.e. when I scroll a web page).  This is all fine for me since I
> will normally be using -ao oss:/dev/dsp1 to play through my stereo's USB
> input anyway.

man mplayer :)
echo "ao=oss:/dev/dsp,arts" >> ~/.mplayer/config

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