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[Stephen Clement <s.clement AT sympatico.ca>]

sindi keesan wrote:

> I downloaded and installpkg'ed mplayer in BL2.  ld-lidux complained 
> about finding two versions of libtiff in /usr/lib (so I moved the libc 
> one out).
>
> I tried it on a .wav and a .mp3 and both times was told:
>
> SDL:  Unable to open audio. No available audio device.
>
> I have play (sox) and mpg123 working, having made /dev/dsp and 
> /dev/audio devices and insmodded the required sound modules for 
> sb16.    Is this OSS sound?
>
> Ron, did you install mplayer to basiclinux and if so, what else did 
> you need to add first to get SDL sound working?
Try using:

mplayer -ao oss (other options, including source)

Stephen Clement