Re: Mozilla mplayer plugin setup question

[LeVA <leva@az.isten.hu>]

2006. július 7. 16:11,
"Thomas H. George" <tom@tomgeorge.info>
-> debian-user@lists.debian.org,:
> On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 10:26:28PM +0200, LeVA wrote:
> [...]
>
> > > > > 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.
I see now... So you had the light show on Win, and you thought that mplayer 
wasn't working right, because it wasn't displaying the light show? That's 
probably a winmediaplayer thingie. You won't have that with mplayer (thanks 
god :)
>
> > > 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.
>
And if you could attach the config file, the list readers could examine it, 
and help you filtering the bad options which causes the stopping.

Daniel

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LeVA