Re: Mozilla mplayer plugin setup question
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 10:26:28PM +0200, LeVA wrote:
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> > > > When my daughter who is still wedded to windows listens to this station
> > > > on line there is a continually changing light show in the window as the
> > > > music plays. This makes me think that somehow my setup is incomplete.
[...]
> Okay, I'm a little confused here :) I can see that in testing version 3.21 of
> mplayerplug-in is packaged. Although I'm using 3.25 (from sources) I assume
> they are working quite the same, and I really don't know what kind of light
> show you are talking about. If no one else replies then I ask you to include
> a small screenshot of that, or the link of the screenshot image. Neither the
> mplayer nor the mplayerplug-in software contains such a feature, so I really
> do not know what produces that. The stream plays fine for me too, and my
> screen gets blanked with gray too (this is normal, this is mplayerplug-in).
I only see the light show on my daughter's computer running Windows. I
have no idea how to capture it there. As we agree that mplayer is
working perfectly for the sound stream I am ready to forego the light
show.
> > Out of curiosity I found mplayer.conf in /etc/mplayer and the opening
> > paragraph said it should be placed in ~/.mplayer/config. I copied it
> > there and uncommented the line ao=alsa. Starting mplayer proceeded
> > exactly as described above until the buffer filled but then no sound and
> > the message, "stopped" was displayed.
> Maybe you don't have alsa enabled in your kernel, and you are using OSS. If
> you are using oss and you want to use that option, you must put oss after ao=
>
I am definitely using alsa. There must be something else in the config
file that causes mplayer to stop. I'll experiment some more.
Tom
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