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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>

> > Try using:
> >
> > mplayer -ao oss (other options, including source)
> >
> > Stephen Clement
> > _______________________________________________
> 
> This time I got:
> 
> audio_setup:  Can't make filedescriptor blocking:  Function not implemented.
> Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound.

Ugh. Are permissions correct? If they are, it is likely a buggy OSS driver.
That could need a kernel upgrade.

If you just want MPlayer to decode things for you, you can use

mplayer -ao pcm

which will dump the output to audiodump.wav which sox should be able
to play.

> It also could not find an mplayer input.config file - could I have 
> put the oss option in there instead of using a switch?
> /root/.mplayer/input.conf or /usr/local/etc/mplayer/input.conf

OSS isn't an input driver. In any case, you do not need any
configuration files for MPlayer to work correctly.

David
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