From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Iec2v-0004uM-R8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2007 19:44:14 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l97JXJdf002147; Sun, 7 Oct 2007 19:33:19 GMT Received: from ctb-mesg7.saix.net (ctb-mesg7.saix.net [196.25.240.77]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l97JQj56025544 for ; Sun, 7 Oct 2007 19:26:45 GMT Received: from [10.0.0.100] (dsl-243-239-108.telkomadsl.co.za [41.243.239.108]) by ctb-mesg7.saix.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D23D1BC6 for ; Sun, 7 Oct 2007 21:26:42 +0200 (SAST) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] no sound with mplayer Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 21:29:23 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <4708E30E.8010003@xvalheru.org> In-Reply-To: <4708E30E.8010003@xvalheru.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200710072129.23793.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> X-Archives-Salt: a4226c85-b61b-4eb9-9e36-fb687f1de5ac X-Archives-Hash: 285df9cb8e4abd700b794486df28d456 On Sunday 07 October 2007, pat wrote: > Hello, > > Time to time I have problem with mplayer. The sound for some video > files doesn't work (mainly for DVDs). The problem is: > *** > Requested audio codec family [a52] (afm=liba52) not available. > Enable it at compilation. > Requested audio codec family [ac3] (afm=libac3) not available. > Enable it at compilation. > Requested audio codec family [hwac3] (afm=hwac3) not available. > Enable it at compilation. > Cannot find codec for audio format 0x2000. > *** > > Please, could someone point me to the solution? You haven't supplied any real information about your system, so it's impossible to tell what the problem really is. Based on your error message the first thing I'd check is if you have the required codec support compiled into mplayer. Please post the output of 'eix -e mplayer' alan -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list