2006. július 7. 16:11, "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> 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.
Daniel -- LeVA
