On 02/13/2012 12:15 AM, John Stanley wrote: > On Sun, 2012-02-12 at 20:30 -0500, Mark LaPierre wrote: > >> No such audio driver 'pulse' >> Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound. >> Audio: no sound >> Video: no video >> >> >> Exiting... (End of file) > ------------------------------------ > You should get this: `mplayer -ao pulse my.mp3` > > Opening audio decoder: [mpg123] MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 layers I, II, III > AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/9.07% (ratio: 16000->176400) > Selected audio codec: [mpg123] afm: mpg123 (MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 layers I, > II, III) > ========================================================================== > AO: [pulse] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample) > Video: no video > Starting playback... > A: 41.3 (41.3) of 254.0 (04:14.0) 0.5% > > > MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: play_audio > A: 41.3 (41.3) of 254.0 (04:14.0) 0.5% > > Exiting... (Quit) > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > With ALSA: > mplayer -ao alsa my.mp3 > > ========================================================================== > Opening audio decoder: [mpg123] MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 layers I, II, III > AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/9.07% (ratio: 16000->176400) > Selected audio codec: [mpg123] afm: mpg123 (MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 layers I, > II, III) > ========================================================================== > AO: [alsa] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample) > Video: no video > Starting playback... > A: 12.7 (12.7) of 254.0 (04:14.0) 0.4% > > > MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: play_audio > A: 12.8 (12.7) of 254.0 (04:14.0) 0.4% > > Exiting... (Quit) > ---------------------------------------- > > On a corectly configured DAW Machine with pulseaudio you should be able > to run: `padsp mplayer my.mp3` > > AO: [oss] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample) > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Video: no video > Starting playback... > A: 11.1 (11.1) of 254.0 (04:14.0) 0.4% > > > MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: play_audio > A: 11.2 (11.1) of 254.0 (04:14.0) 0.4% > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > On EL6 you should be using ALSA for mplayer as alsa targets pulse. > >> aplay file.mp3 says: >> Playing raw data 'file.mp3' : Unsigned 8 bit, Rate 8000 Hz, Mono >> >> Still just makes a nasty hiss. > > `aplay -f dat my.wav` is what you want. "little indianess" byte words. > >> Still no /dev/dsp. Maybe there isn't supposed to be one for my sound >> hardware? > > I said previously there is NO ""/dev/dsp"" and there want be one for > EL6. If perhaps you had one then you really have someing funny going > on. > >> lspci says: >> Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 >> AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60) > > Those cards can be nothing but problems. Some say that there are common > in linux but I say nothing but common trouble. > > When did you update the the kernel last? Something good is `alsa-info` > and read the instructions on the terminal and where to run it and get > the standard output of it. You could try a diffeernt "codec" besides > "lame" like mpg123. Does asound.conf point to the pulses conf file? > > It is a normal thing that pulseaudio will pop and skip and snap crackle > when it does not have enough of a Buffer or Priority and when a card is > going bad. > > Since in the above mplayer can not access pulse last thing you could do > is reinstall all the pulse packages. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > I downgraded lame back to the previous package and rebooted the machine. That fixed the skipping and dropouts from totem/gstreamer. Shortly after that I got a kernel upgrade notice on my auto update tool. I installed that but declined the upgrade to lame. After reboot that still worked. Last night I reinstalled the lame upgrade and did another cold start. Still no skipping and dropouts from totem/gstreamer. mplayer still doesn't want to hear it. mplayer -ao pulse my.mp3 ====> No Joy mplayer -ao alsa my.mp3 ====> No Joy padsp mplayer my.mp3 works. It says: AO: [oss] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample) Sound it good. `aplay -f dat my.mp3` just makes a hissy noise, but it's a different hissy noise than `aplay my.mp3` does. My alsa information is at: http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=522b3664bd765b464440dabd18c7b2dda0a5e154 -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registerd Linux user No #267004