[MPlayer-users] Using mplayer directly with a sound device

Nathan Smith nsmith5 at umbc.edu
Mon Jun 19 21:53:56 CEST 2006


On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Marcin 'Rambo' Roguski wrote:

> > > Try (without sudo!) mplayer -ao help and see what your version/system
> > > supports and use one of these parameters.
> >
> > Ah yes I see I was using it wrongly. If I do
> >
> > mplayer -ao alsa mywavfile.wav
> >
> > it works correctly. Thanks
>
> ...but it raises a nice question, how about raw dsp output like for /dev/audio -
> a little long shot, but will come handy with low specs sun4c hardware

Aye.. well I was originally asking the question because MythTV requires an
audio device (such as /dev/dsp) and I was running into the same problems
as with mplayer.. so maybe I'll try to get alsa working in Myth

Nate




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