Richard Fish wrote:
On 2/28/06, Mike Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I seem to get that error regardless of what I'm playing. I can play
some files, like mp3s with the ao=alsa and that message will still
appear, but it plays anyway.
Ok, theorizing time. (ie., I have absolute no idea whether this is
right or not)
It sounds like this may be related to the sampling frequency of the
generated PCM. If some application (like arts) is using /dev/dsp and
programming a specific rate (like 44100Hz), then when another
application (like mplayer) wants to generate PCM, it must program a
different rate (the wav file in your original message uses a 8000Hz
rate). But the card cannot be changed to the 8kHz rate because the
original application is still "using" the OSS device.
The weird thing is that this was totally working great before modular
Xorg. I'm really thinking it's just a matter of reinstalling
something. I just don't know what. Also, when I play the .wav file, it
plays for like a split second, and then mplayer just hangs. But I do
hear it for that first short second.
If you play through arts, it handles the rate conversions for you, so
everything works.
You can test this by trying "mplayer -srate 44100 -ao arts file.wav".
You can try different rates, or carefully examine the output of
mplayer with an mp3 to see what rate it is using there.
One last question: do you have a ~/.asoundrc file, and if so, what is in it?
-Richard
Here's the output from doing that:
/Desktop $ mplayer -vo alsa -srate 44100 file.wav
MPlayer dev-CVS-060217-04:46-3.4.4 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel Pentium M Dothan (Family: 6, Stepping: 8)
MMX supported but disabled
MMX2 supported but disabled
CPUflags: MMX: 0 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: SSE SSE2
91 audio & 206 video codecs
Playing 2006-02-27 13-42-42.wav.
Audio file file format detected.
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [pcm] Uncompressed PCM audio decoder
AUDIO: 8000 Hz, 1 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/100.00% (ratio: 16000->16000)
Selected audio codec: [pcm] afm: pcm (Uncompressed PCM)
==========================================================================
[AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Device or
resource busy
alsa-init: 1 soundcard found, using: default
alsa: 44100 Hz/1 channels/2 bpf/30104 bytes buffer/Signed 16 bit Little
Endian
AO: [alsa] 44100Hz 1ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
Starting playback...
A: 0.0 (00.0) of 2991.0 (49:51.0) ??,?%
It does the same, plays for a short second and then it still locks up.
I have an mp3 that runs at that rate and it works fine.
Thanks a lot for your help and patience so far, btw. I really
appreciate it.
Mike
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