alsaplayer and mplayer

alsaplayer and mplayer

[Daniel Dalton]

Hi,

When I play a track with mplayer I can not use speech with 
speech-dispatcher, however, if I use alsaplayer I can use my speech.

Does anyone know why this is? I thought both players support alsa?
If so how can I make mplayer work like alsaplayer and let my synth talk at 
the same time?

Thanks for any help,

-- 
Daniel Dalton

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Re: alsaplayer and mplayer

[Daniel Dalton]

On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Daniel Dalton wrote:

> When I play a track with mplayer I can not use speech with speech-dispatcher, 
> however, if I use alsaplayer I can use my speech.

It appears after a little more testing that sometimes it speaks and 
sometimes it doesn't.
It seems to always work with alsaplayer...
Anyone know why this could be?

Thanks,

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Daniel Dalton

http://members.iinet.net.au/~ddalton/
d.dalton@iinet.net.au

Re: alsaplayer and mplayer

[Willem van der Walt]

I think mplayer can be built with or without alsa support.
Alternativly try using mplayer with aoss like:
aoss mplayer file.wav
Regards, Willem

On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Daniel Dalton wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> When I play a track with mplayer I can not use speech with speech-dispatcher,
> however, if I use alsaplayer I can use my speech.
> 
> Does anyone know why this is? I thought both players support alsa?
> If so how can I make mplayer work like alsaplayer and let my synth talk at the
> same time?
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> 
> -- 
> Daniel Dalton
> 
> http://members.iinet.net.au/~ddalton/
> d.dalton@iinet.net.au
> 
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Re: alsaplayer and mplayer

[Daniel Dalton]

On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Willem van der Walt wrote:

> I think mplayer can be built with or without alsa support.
> Alternativly try using mplayer with aoss like:
> aoss mplayer file.wav

Just headed over to #mplayer on irc. (irc.freenode.net)
And they said:
"add ao = alsa" to ~/mplayer/config
Or give the command line option:
mplayer -ao alsa"

Which seems to work!

It seems to be working, but I'll reply if it still isn't working 
correctly.

Thanks for the reply!

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Daniel Dalton

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Re: alsaplayer and mplayer

[Geoff Shang]

Hi,

You can find out which audio outputs are available with

mplayer -ao help

Geoff.

Re: alsaplayer and mplayer

[Daniel Dalton]

On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Geoff Shang wrote:

> Hi,
>
> You can find out which audio outputs are available with
>
> mplayer -ao help

Thanks I'll have a look at that.

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Re: alsaplayer and mplayer

[Geoff Shang]

Hi,

It's possible that mplayer is defaulting to oss.  I might have the wrong 
syntax here, but according to the manual, the way to use alsa would be:

mplayer -ao alsa:device=hw=0,0 <audiofile>

The example given in the manual is actually

mplayer -ao alsa:noblock:device=hw=0.3 <audiofile>

but I'm not sure if the noblock option is needed or desired.

The device hw:x,y is your hardware card number x, device number y.  If you 
have 1 soundcard with 1 output device then it will be 0,0.  If you want to 
use your second card,  first device, it will be 1,0.

If this works for you, you might want to put it in your .mplayer/config 
file.  Just put whatever follows the "mplayer -" (i.e.

ao alsa:device=hw=0,0

Note that it may well default to 0,0 so using "mplayer -ao alsa" may be 
sufficient.

Good luck,
Geoff.


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Re: alsaplayer and mplayer

[Daniel Dalton]

On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Geoff Shang wrote:

> Hi,

Hi,

>
> It's possible that mplayer is defaulting to oss.  I might have the wrong

I think it was, however, some tracks seemed to be using alsa...

> syntax here, but according to the manual, the way to use alsa would be:
>
> mplayer -ao alsa:device=hw=0,0 <audiofile>
>
> The example given in the manual is actually
>
> mplayer -ao alsa:noblock:device=hw=0.3 <audiofile>
>
> but I'm not sure if the noblock option is needed or desired.
>

Yep that worked.

> The device hw:x,y is your hardware card number x, device number y.  If you 
> have 1 soundcard with 1 output device then it will be 0,0.  If you want to 
> use your second card,  first device, it will be 1,0.
>

Thanks for this info, I only have one sound card so
mplayer -ao alsa
worked, but if I ever have more soundcards I'll know how to handle it.
Thanks for explaining that.

> If this works for you, you might want to put it in your .mplayer/config file. 
> Just put whatever follows the "mplayer -" (i.e.
>
> ao alsa:device=hw=0,0
>

Yep except don't you need an = sign?
I have one in mine.

> Note that it may well default to 0,0 so using "mplayer -ao alsa" may be 
> sufficient.

It is on my system.

Also who wants to use os these days?
So why do they still have it?

>
> Good luck,

Thanks for all this info!

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Daniel Dalton

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