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zyon

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-06-26

Posts: 73

MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.3.2 and pulseaudio

Hi Arch Folks,

why mplayer don't supported by pulse and how can I use it?

 mplayer -ao help
MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.3.2 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: AMD Phenom(tm) 9750 Quad-Core Processor (Family: 16, Model: 2, Stepping: 3)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
Available audio output drivers:
        oss     OSS/ioctl audio output
        alsa    ALSA-0.9.x-1.x audio output
        jack    JACK audio output
        sdl     SDLlib audio output
        mpegpes DVB audio output
        v4l2    V4L2 MPEG Audio Decoder output
        null    Null audio output
        pcm     RAW PCM/WAVE file writer audio output

115 audio & 237 video codecs

extra/mplayer 1.0rc2-7
    A movie player for linux

please move in "Pacman & Package Upgrade Issues", thanks

Last edited by zyon (2008-11-05 20:29:56)

wazow

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From: Europe

Registered: 2008-11-11

Posts: 39

Re: MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.3.2 and pulseaudio

Arch is quite conservative here.  I have used pulseaudio with mplayer on gentoo something like 2 years ago ... .  Rumours are that if you take mplayer-svn you will get all you want (including all the trouble that this implies).