[gentoo-user] turning off irrelevant mplayer error

[gentoo-user] turning off irrelevant mplayer error

[maxim wexler]

Hi group,

When I try to use gmplayer to play audio I get this
ugly error message on my desktop:

[A0 0SS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device
/dev/dsp: Device or resource busy

Doesn't stop gmplayer from working. It uses alsa OK.

Got this on the command line too but it wasn't so in
your face.

Anybody know how to stop it? Using 'artsdsp' keeps
audacity from complaining but it doesn't seem to work
in this instance.

-Maxim


 
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Re: [gentoo-user] turning off irrelevant mplayer error

[Nick Rout]

What output device is gmplayer set to use?

Try explicitly setting it to alsa.

for the command line look at /etc/mplayer.conf (system wide) or per user ~/.mplayer/config

I think those setting also affect gmplayer, alsthough gmplayer also has a place to set such things within its gui - which may possibly be stored in ~/.mplayer/gui.conf

I think if its not set to anything it may try all of its output drivers.

Cheers.

On Sat, 9 Dec 2006 12:04:42 -0800 (PST)
maxim wexler <blissfix@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi group,
> 
> When I try to use gmplayer to play audio I get this
> ugly error message on my desktop:
> 
> [A0 0SS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device
> /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy
> 
> Doesn't stop gmplayer from working. It uses alsa OK.
> 
> Got this on the command line too but it wasn't so in
> your face.
> 
> Anybody know how to stop it? Using 'artsdsp' keeps
> audacity from complaining but it doesn't seem to work
> in this instance.
> 
> -Maxim
> 
> 
>  
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Re: [gentoo-user] turning off irrelevant mplayer errorFIXED

[maxim wexler]

--- Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz> wrote:

> What output device is gmplayer set to use?
> 
> Try explicitly setting it to alsa.
> 
> for the command line look at /etc/mplayer.conf

works for gui too, thanks Nick

Maxim 



 
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Re: [gentoo-user] turning off irrelevant mplayer errorFIXED

[Nick Rout]

On Sat, 9 Dec 2006 16:00:35 -0800 (PST)
maxim wexler <blissfix@yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> --- Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz> wrote:
> 
> > What output device is gmplayer set to use?
> > 
> > Try explicitly setting it to alsa.
> > 
> > for the command line look at /etc/mplayer.conf
> 
> works for gui too, thanks Nick
> 
> Maxim 
> 

Ahh its so nice to have answered someone elses question for a change :-)
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Re: [gentoo-user] turning off irrelevant mplayer errorFIXED?

[maxim wexler]

> Ahh its so nice to have answered someone elses
> question for a change :-)
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> 
Whoa! I typed too soon. It doesn't work if I enter $
mplayer -playlist myplaylist.pla. It just scrolls
through the list without a sound. Ctrl-C kicks me out.
However $gmplayer -playlist myplaylist.pla works. 

BTW, what's this .mplayer/gui.pl? How did it get
written? I never knowingly did it. And when I point
gmplayer at it it scrolls like mplayer did but ctrl-c
causes it to crash. Now there's black gmplayer shaped
hole on my desktop and running kill on the PID doesn't
work.

Maxim


 
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Re: [gentoo-user] turning off irrelevant mplayer errorFIXED?

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

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On Monday 11 December 2006 16:40, maxim wexler wrote:
> > Ahh its so nice to have answered someone elses
> > question for a change :-)
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>
> Whoa! I typed too soon. It doesn't work if I enter $
> mplayer -playlist myplaylist.pla. It just scrolls
> through the list without a sound. Ctrl-C kicks me out.
> However $gmplayer -playlist myplaylist.pla works.
[SNIP]

So did you set "ao=alsa" in /etc/mlayer.conf (~/.mplayer/config should work 
too)?

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Re: [gentoo-user] turning off irrelevant mplayer errorFIXED?

[maxim wexler]

> So did you set "ao=alsa" in /etc/mlayer.conf
> (~/.mplayer/config should work 
> too)?
> 
 
No, I uncommented "ao=sdl:esd". So now I've set
"ao=alsa" and that's a definite improvement. Both gui
and command line work OK. Thanks Bo.

I note the mplayer man page is 6700 lines long. Is
there something out there less cumbersome? $info
mplayer is the same.

-Maxim


 
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Re: [gentoo-user] turning off irrelevant mplayer errorFIXED?

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

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On Wednesday 13 December 2006 06:25, maxim wexler wrote:
[SNIP]
> I note the mplayer man page is 6700 lines long. Is
> there something out there less cumbersome? $info
> mplayer is the same.

Not that I'm aware of. Maybe google... You do know that you can search through 
the man page, right? If not I suggest you read how in `man 1 man`.

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Re: [gentoo-user] turning off irrelevant mplayer errorFIXED?

[Uwe Thiem]

On 13 December 2006 15:56, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 December 2006 06:25, maxim wexler wrote:
> [SNIP]
>
> > I note the mplayer man page is 6700 lines long. Is
> > there something out there less cumbersome? $info
> > mplayer is the same.
>
> Not that I'm aware of. Maybe google... You do know that you can search
> through the man page, right? If not I suggest you read how in `man 1 man`.

I once found an HTML version of that man page that is slightly easier to 
browse. Unfortunately, I don't remember the URL - probably somewhere on their 
web site.

Uwe

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Re: [gentoo-user] turning off irrelevant mplayer errorFIXED?

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 16:11:32 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote:

> I once found an HTML version of that man page that is slightly easier
> to browse. Unfortunately, I don't remember the URL - probably somewhere
> on their web site.

"man:mplayer" if you use konqueror :)


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Re: [gentoo-user] turning off irrelevant mplayer errorFIXED?

[Uwe Thiem]

On 13 December 2006 22:20, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 16:11:32 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> > I once found an HTML version of that man page that is slightly easier
> > to browse. Unfortunately, I don't remember the URL - probably somewhere
> > on their web site.
>
> "man:mplayer" if you use konqueror :)

Not the same. That HTML version had a lot of internal links. ;-)

Uwe

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Re: [gentoo-user] turning off irrelevant mplayer errorFIXED?

[Alan McKinnon]

On Wednesday 13 December 2006 22:33, Uwe Thiem wrote:

> Not the same. That HTML version had a lot of internal links. ;-)



/usr/share/doc/mplayer-1.0_rc1/DOCS/HTML/

alan

p.s. 

man mplayer is an example of what a man page should be. All the info is 
there, full and complete :-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] turning off irrelevant mplayer errorFIXED?

[Uwe Thiem]

On 14 December 2006 11:28, Alan McKinnon wrote:

> man mplayer is an example of what a man page should be. All the info is
> there, full and complete :-)

Well, well, well ... that the POV of a masochist. ;-)

Uwe

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Re: [gentoo-user] turning off irrelevant mplayer errorFIXED?

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:28:31 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:

> man mplayer is an example of what a man page should be. All the info is 
> there, full and complete :-)

man mplayer is an example of why we need info pages; far too much
information for one page. At the very least, the mencoder-only options
should be on a separate page.


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Re: [gentoo-user] turning off irrelevant mplayer errorFIXED?

[Alan McKinnon]

On Thursday 14 December 2006 17:59, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:28:31 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > man mplayer is an example of what a man page should be. All the
> > info is there, full and complete :-)
>
> man mplayer is an example of why we need info pages; far too much
> information for one page. At the very least, the mencoder-only
> options should be on a separate page.

You have a point with mencoder.

BUT, I'll only start using info on the day someone can explain to me how 
to use it causing my intestines to leap out of my throat and strangling 
me in protest (apologies to Douglas Adams...)

alan

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Re: [gentoo-user] turning off irrelevant mplayer errorFIXED?

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 18:41:02 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:

> BUT, I'll only start using info on the day someone can explain to me
> how to use it causing my intestines to leap out of my throat and
> strangling me in protest (apologies to Douglas Adams...)

Read it in Konqueror :)


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Re: [gentoo-user] turning off irrelevant mplayer errorFIXED?

[Alan McKinnon]

On Thursday 14 December 2006 18:51, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 18:41:02 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > BUT, I'll only start using info on the day someone can explain to
> > me how to use it causing my intestines to leap out of my throat and
> > strangling me in protest (apologies to Douglas Adams...)
>
> Read it in Konqueror :)

hehehehe, Konqueror rules. Again.

Now to get the Gnome people to catch a wake up and get their stuff to 
work just as easily, well and transparently as kio-slaves do.

Oops, lookee here, silly me, I might have just provoked a flame war :-)

alan

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Re: [gentoo-user] turning off irrelevant mplayer errorFIXED?

[Uwe Thiem]

On 14 December 2006 18:51, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 18:41:02 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > BUT, I'll only start using info on the day someone can explain to me
> > how to use it causing my intestines to leap out of my throat and
> > strangling me in protest (apologies to Douglas Adams...)
>
> Read it in Konqueror :)

Neill is right here. Though it's much easier in KDE help.

Still, mplayer's man page or info page or whatsoever begs for some other 
format to present help. ;-)

Uwe
(a commandline junkie(

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Re: [gentoo-user] turning off irrelevant mplayer errorFIXED?

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 19:10:55 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote:

> > > BUT, I'll only start using info on the day someone can explain to me
> > > how to use it causing my intestines to leap out of my throat and
> > > strangling me in protest (apologies to Douglas Adams...)  
> >
> > Read it in Konqueror :)  
> 
> Neill is right here. Though it's much easier in KDE help.

I can't get info pages in KDE help. If I type in the name of a command
that has both info and man pages, it only finds the man page. That's
displayed exactly the same as in Konqueror.


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Re: [gentoo-user] turning off irrelevant mplayer errorFIXED?

[Niki Guldbrand]

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On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 18:41 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:

> BUT, I'll only start using info on the day someone can explain to me how 
> to use it causing my intestines to leap out of my throat and strangling 
> me in protest (apologies to Douglas Adams...)
> 
> alan
> 

Have you ever tried pinfo ?

[I] app-text/pinfo
     Available versions:  0.6.9
     Installed versions:  0.6.9(01:58:33 PM 12/26/2006)(nls readline)
     Homepage:            http://pinfo.alioth.debian.org/
     Description:         Hypertext info and man viewer based on
(n)curses


Regards

Niki

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