Re: How to configure MPlayer Pl ugin to use a second sound device?

Op dinsdag 22 mei 2007, schreef Kevin DeKorte:
> Henk van Velden wrote:
> > I can find the results of the above in $HOME/.mplayer/gui.conf:
> > ao_oss_mixer = "/dev/mixer1"
> > ao_oss_device = "/dev/dsp1"
> >
> > And now for  MPlayer Plugin (3.31-0.pm.2) in Firefox (1.0.6-16).
> > This still uses the standard sound device so it seems to have a different
> > configuration file(s).
> > http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/config.php mentions
> > $HOME/.mplayer/mplayerplug-in.conf and which parameters can be entered
> > there. The two paremeters mentioned above are not in the list. I tried
> > them out anyhow, but now no sound at all, so I removed that.
> >
> > Is there any possibility to configure The MPlayer Plugin to use other
> > devices and how is it done.
> >
> > Thanks for looking into this problem.
>
> I think that adding this line to mplayerplug-in.conf will do what you want
>
> ao=oss:/dev/dsp1:/dev/mixer1

That did it!! Thank you very much!

>
> You can test it first with mplayer using this
> mplayer -ao oss:/dev/dsp1:/dev/mixer1 {some audio file}
>
> You may also want to try the alsa driver
>
> ao=alsa:device=hw=1.0
>
> Which tells it to use the second card,first device. You might need to
> play around with the numbers...  The file /proc/asound/cards should list
> your cards and then the file /proc/asounc/devices will list devices.
> You'll want to look for the 'digital audio playback' listings and then
> look for [ #- %] where # is the card # and % is the device and that will
> tell you which ones to try.

I found these and your description is correct.

>
> mplayer -ao alsa:device=hw=1.0 {some audio file}
>
> Will allow you to test this out and get it working. I would recommend
> ALSA over OSS.
>
I will try the ALSA solution later. I used OSS because it made things working 
in several players and I could not find configuration items like /dev/... 
(those are things I understand) in the ALSA parameters. But your suggestions 
above may give the clue how to solve this for ALSA (also in other players).
>
> Kevin

Thanks again for this prompt reaction.

-- 
Henk van Velden

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