On 02/17/2012 11:43 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: > 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 > Oh hold the phone! aplay doesn't support mp3. It works fine with wav files. Duhhh! I guess I should RTFM. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registerd Linux user No #267004