[MPlayer-users] cannot open /dev/dsp Fedora/RaspiOS64 bit

Matus UHLAR - fantomas uhlar at fantomas.sk
Tue Mar 7 11:41:13 EET 2023


On 06.03.23 20:09, Antonio Olivares wrote:
>mplayer does not play music files as it mentions cannot open /dev/dsp.  it was working before. 
>
>[olivares at fedora mas_de_lo_que_merecias]$ mplayer 06_el_m_grande.ogg
>MPlayer SVN-r38408-12 (C) 2000-2023 MPlayer Team

>[AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: No such file or directory
>[AO SDL] Samplerate: 44100Hz Channels: Stereo Format floatle
>[AO SDL] Unsupported audio format: 0x1d.
>AO: [sdl] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)

>on another file mp4/webm it reports same message but can hear sound.

>[AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: No such file or directory
>[AO SDL] Samplerate: 44100Hz Channels: Stereo Format floatle
>[AO SDL] Unsupported audio format: 0x1d.
>AO: [sdl] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)

audio output OSS or SDL?

from "olivares at fedora" I assume you use linux. have you tried e.g. alsa 
output?

mplayer -ao alsa

if it's not available, try:
mplayer -ao list


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