Re: Mozilla mplayer plugin setup question
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 05:52:25PM +0200, LeVA wrote:
> 2006. július 8. 16:49,
> "Thomas H. George" <tom@tomgeorge.info>
> -> debian-user@lists.debian.org,:
> > On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 11:47:16AM +0200, LeVA wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > I experimented. Instead of copying mplayer.conf to config I simply
> > edited config as shown:
> >
> > # Write your default config options here!
> > ao=alsa
> >
> > This single entry is enough to cause mplayer to stop after it loads the
> > buffer. Remove the line and mplayer works again. Lest there be any
> > doubt I re-ran alsoconf and am attaching the output of lsmod and locate
> > alsa.
> I can not go further with this really. I don't know how the marillat packaged
> mplayer was compiled. You can run 'mplayer -ao help' and see if there are
> more alsa* audio outs. There used to be alsa9 for alsa-0.9 and alsa for
> alsa-1.0 (IIRC, but maybe those were different names...). In the recent
> mplayer versions, there is only one alsa audio out, and that's called 'alsa'.
> It works with Alsa-0.9.x and Alsa-1.x. You could try to use the other alsa
> audio out, if there is any. Mplayer must work with one or another ao, if it
> works without the config file. I see you have the OSS emulation configured,
> and the modules loaded, so you should try to use the ao=oss, and see if it is
> working.
> Btw, you've attached mplayer's output, but cropped out the AO information, so
> I don't know which audio out is used by default by your mplayer. If you play
> a file with mplayer (without specifying any ao drivers. neither in the
> command line with -ao, nor in the config file with ao=), you can see a line
> like this:
> AO: [alsa] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
> or
> AO: [oss] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
>
> You can tell what is the default from that. So you should probably write that
> to your .mplayer/config file.
Thanks Daniel,
You're right. I tried playing a .wav file with mplayer (normally I use
wavp) and got the line AO: [oss] 44100Hz 3ch s16le (2 bytes per sample).
I then put the line ao=oss in config and mplayer started normally. As
you can see from the attached unedited mplayer.conf file the audio
section seems to indicate that ao=alsa should be used.
For now I'll just stick with a blank config file as the defaults work
fine.
Tom
#
# MPlayer configuration file
#
# Configuration files are read system-wide from /usr/local/etc/mplayer.conf
# and per user from ~/.mplayer/config, where per-user settings override
# system-wide settings, all of which are overrriden by the command line.
#
# The configuration file settings are the same as the command line
# options without the preceding '-'.
#
# See the CONFIGURATION FILES section in the man page
# for a detailed description of the syntax.
##################
# video settings #
##################
# Specify default video driver (see -vo help for a list).
#vo=xv
# Use SDL video with the aalib subdriver by default.
#vo = sdl:aalib
# FBdev driver:
#
# mode to use (read from fb.modes)
#fbmode = 640x480-120
#
# location of the fb.modes file
#fbmodeconfig = /etc/fb.modes
# Specify your monitor timings for the vesa and fbdev video output drivers.
# See /etc/X11/XF86Config for timings. Be careful; if you specify settings
# that exceed the capabilities of your monitor, you may damage it.
#
# horizontal frequency range (k stands for 1000)
#monitor-hfreq = 31.5k-50k,70k
#
# vertical frequency range
#monitor-vfreq = 50-90
#
# dotclock (or pixelclock) range (m stands for 1000000)
#monitor-dotclock = 30M-300M
# Start in fullscreen mode by default.
#fs=yes
# Change to a different videomode when going fullscreen.
#vm=yes
# Override the autodetected color depth, may need 'vm=yes' as well.
#bpp=0
# Enable software scaling (powerful CPU needed) for video output
# drivers that do not support hardware scaling.
#zoom=yes
# standard monitor size, with square pixels
#monitoraspect=4:3
# Use this for a widescreen monitor, non-square pixels.
#monitoraspect=16:9
# Keep the player window on top of all other windows.
#ontop=yes
##################
# audio settings #
##################
# Specify default audio driver (see -ao help for a list).
ao=alsa
# Use SDL audio driver with the esd subdriver by default.
#ao = sdl:esd
# Specify the mixer device.
#mixer = /dev/mixer
# Resample the sound to 44100Hz with the lavcresample audio filter.
#af=lavcresample=44100
##################
# other settings #
##################
# Drop frames to preserve audio/video sync.
#framedrop = yes
# Specify your preferred skin here (skins are searched for in
# /usr/local/share/mplayer/skins/<name> and ~/.mplayer/skins/<name>).
#skin = Abyss
# Resample the font alphamap.
# 0 plain white fonts
# 0.75 very narrow black outline (default)
# 1 narrow black outline
# 10 bold black outline
#ffactor = 0.75
# cache settings
#
# Use 8MB input cache by default.
#cache = 8192
#
# Prefill 20% of the cache before starting playback.
#cache-min = 20.0
#
# Prefill 50% of the cache before restarting playback after the cache emptied.
#cache-seek-min = 50
# DVD: Display English subtitles if available.
#slang = en
# DVD: Play English audio tracks if available.
#alang = en
# get a default OSD font from fontconfig
fontconfig = yes
font = "Sans"
subfont-text-scale = 3
# You can also include other configuration files.
#include = /path/to/the/file/you/want/to/include
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