Re: Soundcard amd mplayer


Dances With Crows wrote:
On 16 Jul 2006 12:07:57 -0700, iforone staggered into the Black Sun and
said:
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.

Because that's what most mobo manuals say you must/should do (when you
add a PCI soundcard)... Likely from it's onboard chip occupying the
same address registers that a PCI soundcard would use (I haven't given
it much thought actually). I'm not saying it's not possible to use
*both*, but it's a good start for t-shooting, especially on 'cheaper'
mobos.

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.

Are you sure about that ?
ISTR; Mplayer (which I have not even used/installed yet) started out as
one of Linux's 1st DVD player -- aka 'Optical drives' -- I could be
mistaken about that... and the OP hasn't yet mentioned if the "video"
is from a DVD in the optical drive or what. As for MP3's?, I didn't
know mplayer plays mp3s, but I guess I'd say now, well why wouldn't it.

Regards

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