[solved - updates] No sound in mplayer (Arch)

[dedanna1029]

Pastebin here of playback.

I've set it to everything in the book for audio/video in preferences, but all I get is video, no matter what way I go, both in CLI and GUI (to include smplayer, gnome-mplayer, and just mplayer). Doesn't matter what kind of file; .mp3, .mp4, .avi, anything, I get no sound.

Any clue what could be wrong? I can't uninstall it. Too many other things depend on it:

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# pacman -R gnome-mplayer kdemultimedia-mplayerthumbs mplayer smplayer smplayer-themes
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: acetoneiso2: requires mplayer
:: devede: requires mplayer
:: electricsheep: requires mplayer
:: gmencoder: requires mplayer
:: kde-meta-kdemultimedia: requires kdemultimedia-mplayerthumbs
:: mandvd: requires mplayer

This is in Arch, btw. Thanks.

[viking60]

Do you have more than one sound card?
Anyway

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pacman -Rs

should do it!

[dedanna1029]

Yes, I do. What would pacman -Rs do? I need to keep with being able to use both the onboard sound, and my audigy. Thanks.
Rs removes the files and the dependencies not used by others.
Maybe this can help you regarding the sound:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/All ... k_of_Sound

[dedanna1029]

Oh, sorry, I should have been more clear. This is only in mplayer that I have no sound. Everything else is fine. I think this one may help; however I tried from CLI with:

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mplayer -ao alsa <filename>

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Didn't do anything sound wise.

[dedanna1029]

Actually, the command was more than that even. I'll scroll back through my day's terminal (which thank the gods that be is set to "unlimited"), and will find it, and add it to the pastebin above. Edit: I've posted it to the pastebin, and updated its url above. It was:

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mplayer -ao alsa:device=hw,0 <filename>

It doesn't matter if I'm using vdpau, X11, xv, alsa, pulse, or oss in mplayer. Nothing works. I'm beginning to suspect a bug.

Thanks.

[dedanna1029]

Still no love or joy from mplayer in Arch.

Will file a bug on mplayer when I get back in there.

[viking60]

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=56350

[b1o]

Tried songbird or vlc?
mplayer isn't the best player out there
but if you really want to figure out mplayer i can see if i have sound in it on my system, if not i'll keep you posted

EDIT: Nope i have sound, sry can't help you

all i did was to install mplayer then wrote:

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mplayer some_video_file.avi

[dedanna1029]

Tried songbird or vlc?
mplayer isn't the best player out there
but if you really want to figure out mplayer i can see if i have sound in it on my system, if not i'll keep you posted

EDIT: Nope i have sound, sry can't help you

all i did was to install mplayer then wrote:

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mplayer some_video_file.avi

I tried that too. Didn't work.

I need mplayer for several things. Headed to check out Viking's link.

[dedanna1029]

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=56350

Didn't even go there with dvdnav. I just want to be able to play regular local files. Looks like they did something to eff it up for sure.

[dedanna1029]

After updates yesterday, mplayer still no workie. Have reverted to vlc, but really need mplayer.

It doesn't even register when playing back something, in Pulseaudio-->Applications. It's not there.

Works in Fedora, out of the box.

[viking60]

You might check the dependency list in Fedora and check if you have them all in Arch. Must be some programs you are missing,