[MPlayer-users] Using mplayer without audio

[Robert La Ferla]

On Sep 17, 2006, at 9:41 PM, The Wanderer wrote:

> 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...

No.  I read the manual and know about those options.  mplayer  
shouldn't crash when there's no sound card present.