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

sindi keesan wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Ron Clarke wrote:
<snip>
> >   After re-naming my existing (working) mplayer, I installed the new one.
>
> I did that too.

I renamed my existing BL3 fs.img because it was almost full and
then I rebooted.

> >   It works OK under X, for avi, mpg, wmv.
> It works for me with .wav and DVD files.

It seems to work about as well as the older one.

> I never tried playing sound as user before but when I checked I had the
> same problem, with both 'play' (sox) and mplayer.
> play *.wav:  Can't open output file '/dev/dsp':  Permission denied
> ls -l /dev/dsp shows that user has read and execute permission.

user also needs write permission. For /dev/dsp, write=playback,
read=recording permission. Similar for /dev/mixer: write=change
settings, read=examine settings.

Why would you want execute permission for essentially random
audio data?

> (If I don't specify -ao oss on the command line:  Unable to open audio.
> No available audio device.  oss must not be on a list of available
> devices, unlike svga for video).

If I don't specify -ao oss on the command line it behaves exactly
the same as if I do. Odd.

> Can you get mplayer to play oss sound by putting that in
> /root/.mplayer/config (as ao=oss)?

That won't work if you have no permission to open /dev/dsp
for writing.

I can get mplayer to play oss or sdl sound by putting it in
/root/.mplayer/config. I am root on BL3. I can also get
it to use various vo drivers, excepting framebuffer
because I am not in fb mode.

David