Thanks John,
In the mean time, the problem was solved. I've found a posting on an alsa related site with the solution. Accordingly, on the debian system if you install the "alsa-base" package it configures automatically the sound system. So, I installed the package and it seems, it repaired the damage and now, Mplayer is working fine both in command line and graphic modes.
J. Mak
John <j5483@yahoo.com> wrote:
Can you remember which files? Try starting mplayer from the command line
like this, "mplayer -ao alsa /file_to_test_with/". That will tell
mplayer to use alsa as the audio output. If that doesn't work replace
alsa with arts. If either of those work, as root add or modify a line
"ao=alsa" (arts instead of alsa if needed ) in
/etc/mplayer.conf. Also
delete your ~/.mplayer/config file as it's settings will override the
global setting in /etc/mplayer.conf.
j Mak wrote:
> Hi,
> Before, i had sound when started mplayer from the command line, but
> not from the graphical frontend. Then I wanted to fix the problem and
> started messing with files following instructions found on the net.
> Now, I ended up with no sound at all. Probably, I misunderstood the
> instructions. The video works fine. Anyhow, could anyone help me
> getting my sound back. I'm running sarge with 2.6 kernel and kde desktop.
> Thanks a lot,
> J. Mak
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