[MPlayer-users] Centos 4.4 / Intel D945GCL board / Intel 945G Express Chipset / Mplayer mplayer-1.0pre8-1

[John Schmerold]

I apologize in advance if I'm doing something really stupid, but, I 
cannot seem to coerce my Centos 4.4 box to play mp3 files or streaming 
audio from radio stations.

My configuration is:
Centos 4.4 / Intel D945GCL board / Intel 945G Express Chipset / Mplayer 
mplayer-1.0pre8-1

This is a fresh Trixbox 1.2.3 installation (essentially a Centos 4.4 
server box with Asterisk VOIP system preinstalled), after installation I 
ran following:
    cd /etc/yum.repos.d
    wget http://rpm.greysector.net/yum/greysector.repo
    rpm --import http://rpm.greysector.net/greysector-pubkey.txt
    yum install mplayer mplayer-skins mplayer-fonts mplayerplug-in

I downloaded a MP3:
    wget http://download.jgaa.com/ftp/pub/mp3/tsmb/DONTMESS.MP3

Then I thought I'd play it:
     mplayer /root/DONTMESS.MP3

It looks like it's playing:
 >      MPlayer 1.0pre8-Fedora-GS-4.0.2 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
 >      CPU:               Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.00GHz (Family: 
15, Model: 6, Stepping: 2)
 >      CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
 >      Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
 >      Playing /root/DONTMESS.MP3.
 >      Audio file file format detected.
 >      
==========================================================================
 >      Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
 >      AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/9.07% (ratio: 
16000->176400)
 >      Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, 
layer-3)
 >      
==========================================================================
 >      AO: [oss] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
 >      Video: no video
 >      Starting playback...

As you may have guessed by now, nothing comes out of the speakers. Not 
knowing what I was doing, I tried following:
   30  mplayer -ao alsa DONTMESS.MP3  (seemed to lock up console)
   33  mplayer -ao mpegpes /root/DONTMESS.MP3  (reported Could not 
open/initialize audio device -> no sound)
   34  mplayer -ao oss /root/DONTMESS.MP3
   35  mplayer -ao nul /root/DONTMESS.MP3
   36  mplayer -ao pcm /root/DONTMESS.MP3
Same results, except as noted above.

The two uncommented lines in /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf are:
fontconfig=yes
font="Nimbus Sans L"

I think I've been down enough blind alleys to through myself on the 
mercy of the list. WHAT AM I DOING WRONG. Oh yeah, I've checked the 
connections....