Re: KDE 4.4 and Phonon

[Bud Rogers <budr@netride.net>]

On Fri March 12 2010 23:27:03 Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> Can you kill X and login into the console and try mplayer with the oss and 
> alsa audio output device ? That will give a better idea if it has
> something  to do with Phonon or something else.

The errors scrolled by faster than I could read, so I redirected output.  I 
think I got everything.  Pulse and oss errors appear to be the same.  Alsa 
errors are a little different.  I wonder if I'm just missing a package there.

$ mplayer -ao pulse Eric\ Clapton\ -\ 01\ -\ My\ Father\'s\ Eyes.ogg 2> 
errors1 1> errors2

$ cat errors1
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.
AO: [pulse] Init failed: Connection refused
Failed to initialize audio driver 'pulse'
Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound.


$ mplayer -ao oss Eric\ Clapton\ -\ 01\ -\ My\ Father\'s\ Eyes.ogg 2> errors3 
1> errors4

$cat errors3
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.
[AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Permission denied
Failed to initialize audio driver 'oss'
Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound.


$ mplayer -ao alsa Eric\ Clapton\ -\ 01\ -\ My\ Father\'s\ Eyes.ogg 2> errors5 
1> errors6

$cat errors5
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card '0'
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: conf.c:4154:(_snd_config_evaluate) function 
snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such file or directory
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: conf.c:4154:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat 
returned error: No such file or directory
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: conf.c:4154:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer 
returned error: No such file or directory
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: conf.c:4633:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file 
or directory
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: pcm.c:2211:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
[AO_ALSA] Playback open error: No such file or directory
Failed to initialize audio driver 'alsa'
Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound.


Standard out is the same in each case.

$cat errors6
MPlayer SVN-r29142-4.4.3 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team

Playing Eric Clapton - 01 - My Father's Eyes.ogg.
[Ogg] stream 0: audio (Vorbis), -aid 0
Ogg file format detected.
Clip info:
 Name: My Father's Eyes
 Artist: Eric Clapton
 Genre: Rock
 Creation Date: 1998
 Album: Pilgrim
 Track: 01
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 112.0 kbit/7.94% (ratio: 14000->176400)
Selected audio codec: [ffvorbis] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg Vorbis)
==========================================================================
Audio: no sound
Video: no video


Exiting... (End of file)



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Bud Rogers <budr at netride net>