[gentoo-user] mplayer sound issues

[Mike Myers <fluffymikey@gmail.com>]

Hey folks!

I'm having kind of a weird problem with mplayer.  I can play some 
things, but not others but only under certain circumstances.  I can play 
.mp3 files and movies.  I can play anything if I'm using the arts driver 
as the audio output, except when I play DVDs, I get no sound.  I can get 
sound with dvds in xine, but i can't get a decent video driver to 
display the video without choppiness with xine.  If I use the alsa 
driver with mplayer, I can't seem to play .wav files.  I can play them 
with arts however.  I'd really prefer to use alsa though, because 
there's lag whenever I skip forwards or backwards.  I use it to 
transcribe phone messages, so that lag is extremely irritating.

Except for dvds, mplayer was working great with .wav files.  I'm not 
sure what the difference is at all, but I'm just guessing something 
needs recompiled or something like that.  I tried recompiling mplayer 
with different use flags several times, recompiling the libraries for 
mplayer, but no matter what I do I get the same issue.  What happens 
exactly, with alsa in mplayer, is it'll start to play for a split second 
and then just freeze.  The output looks like this from a console:

laptop$ mplayer 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: 8000 Hz/1 channels/2 bpf/5460 bytes buffer/Signed 16 bit Little Endian
AO: [alsa] 8000Hz 1ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
Starting playback...
A:   0.0 (00.0) of 2991.0 (49:51.0) ??,?%

I have to press ctrl+c to stop it.  I've tried various wave files, 
including ones I've used before that worked before.  These same files 
work with arts, except for the lag.  Can anybody help me with this?

Thanks in advance,
Mike
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