[MPlayer-users] Using mplayer without audio

[The Wanderer]

Robert La Ferla wrote:

> I need to preview video on a system that does not have an audio
> card. However, mplayer crashes when it can't open the audio device.
> I expected it to just not play the audio.  BTW - I did try installing
> an audio card in this server but ran into IRQ issues with the other
> cards.  While I may still pursue installing one, I would like to get
> mplayer working without one.  Ideas?

Try either '-nosound' (to proceed as if the file had no sound at all) or
'-ao null' (to "play" audio into /dev/null rather than actually
outputting it). Or both, if you prefer - I doubt it would hurt anything.

This is really a "RTFM" question...

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