Re: Disabling sound

H}kan Hjort <[email protected]> Fri, 12 Sep 2003 23:18:48 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.video.ogle.user
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Fri Sep 12 2003, Paolo Amoroso wrote:
> Is it possible to disable sound so that Ogle does not attempt to
> access an audio device?
> 
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> The problem with the Ogle version I have is that, just after opening
> the disc, video playback is started for a few seconds, and then the
> program dies (i.e. the playback window disappears) with the error:
> 
>   Debug[ogle_ctrl]: Started /usr/lib/ogle/ogle_a52 with pid 1036
>   Debug[ogle_vout]: set_sync_point()
>   opening a 2 channel audio driver
>   Can not open /dev/audio
>   FATAL[ogle_a52]: Can not open audio output
> 
> I have tried fiddling with ~/.oglerc, e.g. by setting the audio device
> to /dev/null, but without success. And the audio select button in the
> is not always reliable. Is there a command line switch for disabling
> audio access?
> 
Set the <driver> part to null. I.e.

  <audio>
    <device>
      <driver>null</driver>

That should do the trick.

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Håkan Hjort