Re: Why gmplayer - no sound; mplayer - sound?

From: Yannick Le Saint (kyncani) (y.lesaint_at_gmail.com)
Date: 07/31/05

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    To: Patrick Wiseman <pwiseman@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 06:12:19 +0200

    On Sat, 2005-07-30 at 23:47 -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
    > When I play a file directly with mplayer, it has sound, but when I
    > select the same file from the gmplayer list, I get "Could not
    > open/initialise audio device -> no sound".
    >
    > What's gmplayer's problem with the audio device? I thought it was
    > just a frontend for mplayer.

      Yes, but they don't take their configuration from the same places.
      See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MplayerInstallHowto

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    Regards.

    Yannick Le Saint (kyncani) <y.lesaint@gmail.com> 

    


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