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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, David Moberg wrote:

> ----- 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.

This does let me play an mp3 with play, filtered through mplayer, but I 
could just play it directly with mpg123.  Could I set up a script that 
would run an mp3 file through mplayer and then to play?
mplayer -ao pcm - http:/......mp3| play -

I tried this with a radio URL and was told:
sox:  Type AUTO input must be a file, not a pipe.

I could try writing a script to produce audiodump.wav and pipe that to 
play but this seems unnecessarily complex, considering Ron got it to work 
directly.

> > 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.

I was able to put ao oss in the empty config file you supplied and omit 
the -ao oss, and it still of course did not play.


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