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Re: Aviplay question



On Fri, 08 Feb 2002 00:33:08 +0300
"Nikita V. Youshchenko" <yoush@cs.msu.su> wrote:

> Hello.
> 
> I am havihng trouble trying to play an DivX movie.
> I usually play movies using aviplay, and it used to work.
> But it failed this time... there is no sound. The complete aviplay output 
> is below.
> I see the error messages, but they are too cryptic for me ...
> Seems that this is the reason:
> ...
> AC3 pass-through audio decoder created
> src [wFormatTag=0x2000, nChannels=3, nSamplesPerSec=48000, 
> nAvgBytesPerSec=16000, nBlockAlign=1, wBitsPerSample=0, cbSize=18]
> dst [wFormatTag=0x2000, nChannels=3, nSamplesPerSec=32000, 
> nAvgBytesPerSec=192000, nBlockAlign=6144, wBitsPerSample=16, cbSize=18]
> SdlAudioRenderer: FATAL: Couldn't open audio device: 1 (mono) and 2 
> (stereo) channels supported
> ...
> 
> Does it mean that I can't play this file on using my current hardware 
> (soundcard is a cheap CM8x38-based)?
you can... there's probably a program blocking the audio device....
(maybe a sound daemon, like esd or artsd) if you kill this program
aviplay should work (if you have the right permissions on /dev/dsp,
of course (adduser user audio and a relogin would do it))

[]s!

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