[MPlayer-users] mplayer alsa output hangs

[Jan Knutar]

On Thursday 06 April 2006 12:54, Konstantin Kletschke wrote:

> It needs to be -ao alsa specified, but this is a compile time option I
> suppose...

-ao help
shows you the order in which output drivers are tried. You could just
disable the ones that come before alsa if you only want to use alsa.

Another thing, with MPlayer-CVS and a recent alsa-lib, then dmix and
everything "should just work" without any .asoundrc.