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jai134

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Registered: 2008-11-26

Posts: 234

usb sound card mplayer

Hello. I can use Dragon player to play music thru my usb sound-card. How can I configure mplayer to do it. I'm on an Acer one running kde 4.2 and openbox. Tried with alsaconf and it couldn't find it.

Army

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Registered: 2007-12-07

Posts: 1,784

Re: usb sound card mplayer

Alsaconf only supports internal soundcards. That's fine. But you could try this

mplayer -ao alsa:device=hw=1,0

I put this into the .bashrc as an alias

alias mplayer-ext='mplayer -ao alsa:device=hw=1,0'

If you want to know, how to do this with the mplayer gui, I don't know, haven't used that for a long time, it sucks imho

jai134

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Registered: 2008-11-26

Posts: 234

Re: usb sound card mplayer

Thankyou! Yes, the default gui sucks but Have you tried SMplayer. I have been using that with good results. But for now I'm staying with the cli.