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victorhooi

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Registered: 2009-08-06

Posts: 109

Mplayer has sound, but Smplayer has no sound?

heya,

I have a Lenovo X200 tablet, with Arch64 installed on it.

I have Mplayer SVN-r31040-4.4.3 and Smplayer 0.6.9 (SVN r3447).

Previously, both of these worked fine, However, recently, after a Pacman upgrade, when I attempted to play a movie, Mplayer seems to play the movie with sound, but Smplayer has no sound at all.

I checked the output from Smplayer:

Debug: MplayerProcess::parseLine: '=========================================================================='
Debug: MplayerProcess::parseLine: 'Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family'
Debug: MplayerProcess::parseLine: 'Selected video codec: [ffodivx] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-4)'
Debug: MplayerProcess::parseLine: '=========================================================================='
Debug: MplayerProcess::parseLine: 'ID_VIDEO_CODEC=ffodivx'
Debug: MplayerProcess::parseLine: '=========================================================================='
Debug: MplayerProcess::parseLine: 'Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3'
Debug: MplayerProcess::parseLine: 'AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/8.33% (ratio: 16000->192000)'
Debug: MplayerProcess::parseLine: 'ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=128000'
Debug: MplayerProcess::parseLine: 'ID_AUDIO_RATE=48000'
Debug: MplayerProcess::parseLine: 'ID_AUDIO_NCH=2'
Debug: MplayerProcess::parseLine: 'Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)'
Debug: MplayerProcess::parseLine: '=========================================================================='
Debug: MplayerProcess::parseLine: '[AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy'
Debug: MplayerProcess::parseLine: 'Failed to initialize audio driver 'oss''
Debug: MplayerProcess::parseLine: 'Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound.'
Debug: MplayerProcess::parseLine: 'Audio: no sound'
Debug: MplayerProcess::parseLine: 'Starting playback...'
Debug: MplayerProcess::parseLine: 'Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.'
Debug: MplayerProcess::parseLine: md.video_aspect set to 1.780000
Debug: MplayerProcess::parseLine: 'ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=1.7793'
Debug: MplayerProcess::parseLine: md.video_aspect set to 1.779300
Debug: MplayerProcess::parseLine: '[swscaler @ 0xef5ac0]using unscaled yuv420p -> rgb24 special converter'
Debug: MplayerProcess::parseLine: 'VO: [xv] 854x480 => 854x480 Planar YV12 '

From Mplayer, there's a similar thing mentioned

AVI file format detected.
[aviheader] Video stream found, -vid 0
[aviheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1
VIDEO:  [XVID]  854x480  12bpp  29.970 fps  963.4 kbps (117.6 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
 Software: MEncoder Sherpya-SVN-r23404-4.2.0
Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[vdpau] Error when calling vdp_device_create_x11: 1
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffodivx] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-4)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/8.33% (ratio: 16000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
==========================================================================
[AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [xv] 854x480 => 854x480 Planar YV12 
A:  87.7 V:  87.7 A-V:  0.000 ct:  0.077 2628/2628 10%  0%  0.7% 0 0 
Exiting... (Quit)

Any ideas on what's going on?

Cheers,
Victor

txus

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Registered: 2008-01-23

Posts: 78

Re: Mplayer has sound, but Smplayer has no sound?

What is your audio output driver in smplayer? (preferences -> general -> audio)

You should set it to alsa.

victorhooi

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Registered: 2009-08-06

Posts: 109

Re: Mplayer has sound, but Smplayer has no sound?

heya,

Aha! That worked .

I changed from OSS to Also, and it works fine now.

Any idea why it changed like that? Could an update have caused it?

Also, there were other ones, like "alsa (0.0 - HDA INTEL)" and "alsa (0.1 - HDA INTEL)". Not sure what they were there for.

Cheers,
Victor

txus

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Registered: 2008-01-23

Posts: 78

Re: Mplayer has sound, but Smplayer has no sound?

Those are probably the different outputs of your sound card(s). I have 0.0 HDA Intel and 1.3 HDA ATI HDMI, so that should be the possible outputs.

About what could have changed it to OSS, I have no idea