Re: Mplayer = AARGH
On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 17:52:55 +0100, Andrea Mennucc <mennucc1@debian.org> wrote:
> do you use Debian woody or Debian sarge?
>
> michael wrote:
> > I'm going through helll trying to get mplayer to work on my machine. I
> > tried the .debs first, but they didn't work - the application starts,
> > but nothing works.
> >
> > Specifically I need it to play some windows-centric audio file with asf
> > extensions. when I try to play them, mplayer craps out while trying
> > to use alsa.
> >
> > My other audio applications (Ardour , Hydrogen etc.) work fine.
> >
> > any help or suggestions would be appreciated.
It may to totally unrelated, but I had a similar experience today with XMMS.
Yesterday after installing sarge, XMMS worked - today after boot it didn't.
Somehow ALSA didn't come up properly and I had to run alsaconf again.
Then it works (before that xmms did either nothing or froze)
Best regards,
Hannes.
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