From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from oflmta01bw.bigpond.com ([139.134.6.21]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 16UbqW-0003A6-00 for ; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 18:02:52 -0500 Received: from data.home ([144.135.24.84]) by oflmta01bw.bigpond.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id GQKIZY00.JHH for ; Sun, 27 Jan 2002 09:09:34 +1000 Received: from CPE-144-136-137-64.qld.bigpond.net.au ([144.136.137.64]) by bwmam06.mailsvc.email.bigpond.com(MailRouter V3.0h 47/3367085); 27 Jan 2002 09:02:24 Received: from geoff by data.home with local-esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16Ubq4-0004Tp-00; Sun, 27 Jan 2002 09:02:24 +1000 Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 09:02:24 +1000 From: Geoff Shang To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: Richard Stallman on Free Software In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.7 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Hi: ogg123 uses a library called libao for audio output. Its job is to provide cross-platform audio output with a number of different devices supported. But the side effect of this is odd behaviour like this. If you get it as a packaged binary, the packager has no idea what audio hardware you have, so it has to default to the null output driver. You can specify your preferred output driver by either using the -d option or making an .ogg123rc file and puting in a default_device directive. Note that ogg123 in RC2 seemed to ignore this. In either case, you can use oss for the oss driver, alsa for alsa output, wav for wav output, and a number of other things, depending on what plugins have been compiled in. I tend to use oss. So you can do: ogg123 -d oss whatever.ogg or try putting default_device=oss in .ogg123rc in your home directory. Geoff.