Re: Soundcard amd mplayer

On 16 Jul 2006 12:07:57 -0700, iforone staggered into the Black Sun and
said:
Greg wrote:
Hi, I recently installed a Creative Soundblaster Audigy. I Went to
System Settings -> Soundcard Detection and then changed my default
soundcard from the onboard VIA one to the one I just installed.
Everything seems to work fine, except for mplayer. When I try and
play an MP3 through it, it gives me: 'Could not open/initialise audio
device ->no sound'.
Have you disabled the Onboard sound in the BIOS ?

Why would this change anything? It's possible for Linux to run multiple
soundcards without screwing up. You just have to tell your apps to send
data to /dev/sound/dsp1 instead of /dev/sound/dsp0 , or whatever.

If your optical drive(s) have 4pin audio cables running from it to the
Mobo (for the onboard processing), you may want to either remove it
completely, or just move the jack from the mobo input to the internal

mplayer doesn't use that cable at all for playing mp3s or audio data
embedded in ASF/AVI/MOV/whatever files.

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