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#1194 closed defect (invalid)

setting ao=pulse in ~/.mplayer/config breaks mplayer

Reported by:	daw-bugzilla@…	Owned by:	reimar
Priority:	normal	Component:	ao
Version:	HEAD	Severity:	normal
Keywords:		Cc:
Blocked By:		Blocking:
Reproduced by developer:	no	Analyzed by developer:	no

Description

On my machine, the svn-head mplayer does not play .mp3 for me, and to play a .wav file, I have to eliminate the "ao=pulse" line I had in my ~/.mplayer/config file.

I'm on a Fedora 9 x86_64 (Core II Duo) machine. I have a version of mplayer installed from Livna RPMs as a baseline (rpm -q mplayer says: mplayer-1.0-0.94.20080531svn.lvn9.x86_64), and I also compiled the latest mplayer in svn from source (svn revision 27291). Behavior also seems to depend on what I have in my ~/.mplayer/config file.

Here's a chart with what works and what doesn't, when I try to play a .wav file:

livnarpm r27291

ao=pulse: WORKS (pulse) WON'T PLAY (no driver)
empty: WORKS (pulse) WORKS (alsa)
no file: WORKS (pulse) WORKS (alsa)

Each row shows a different choice for the contents of my ~/.mplayer/config file. The stuff in parentheses in the 2nd and 3rd column shows what audio output driver mplayer has selected.

Here's a chart showing what works and what doesn't when I try to play a .mp3 file:

livnarpm r27291

ao=pulse: WORKS (pulse) WON'T PLAY (no driver)
empty: WORKS (pulse) GARBLED AUDIO (alsa)
no file: WORKS (pulse) GARBLED AUDIO (alsa)

In the latter two rows, with the Subversion mplayer, I get audio output that is clearly wrong (it's kind of garbled and has some kind of noise but is vaguely recognizable as related to the original audio). So I have not found a way to get Subversion-head mplayer to play .mp3 files correctly.

It's possible I've done something wrong in how I compiled or installed mplayer from Subversion; if so, I apologize. I thought I'd report it just in case it's a real issue.

Full output from mplayer, for each of these settings, follows.

$ cat ~/.mplayer/config
[default]
# Write your default config options here!
ao=pulse
$ mplayer /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav
MPlayer dev-SVN-r26936-4.3.0 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6400 @ 2.13GHz (Family: 6, Model: 15, Stepping: 6)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav.
Audio file file format detected.
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [pcm] Uncompressed PCM audio decoder
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 1 ch, s16le, 768.0 kbit/100.00% (ratio: 96000->96000)
Selected audio codec: [pcm] afm: pcm (Uncompressed PCM)
==========================================================================
AO: [pulse] 48000Hz 1ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
Starting playback...
A: 0.9 (00.8) of 1.0 (01.0) 0.0%

Exiting... (End of file)
$ ./mplayer /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav
MPlayer dev-SVN-r27291-4.3.0 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6400 @ 2.13GHz (Family: 6, Model: 15, Stepping: 6)
MMX2 supported but disabled
SSE supported but disabled
SSE2 supported but disabled
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX

Playing /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav.
Audio file file format detected.
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [pcm] Uncompressed PCM audio decoder
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 1 ch, s16le, 768.0 kbit/100.00% (ratio: 96000->96000)
Selected audio codec: [pcm] afm: pcm (Uncompressed PCM)
==========================================================================
No such audio driver 'pulse'
Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound.
Audio: no sound
Video: no video

Exiting... (End of file)

(mplayer is from the livna rpm; ./mplayer is compiled from svn head.)

$ cat ~/.mplayer/config
[default]
# Write your default config options here!
$ mplayer /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav
MPlayer dev-SVN-r26936-4.3.0 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6400 @ 2.13GHz (Family: 6, Model: 15, Stepping: 6)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav.
Audio file file format detected.
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [pcm] Uncompressed PCM audio decoder
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 1 ch, s16le, 768.0 kbit/100.00% (ratio: 96000->96000)
Selected audio codec: [pcm] afm: pcm (Uncompressed PCM)
==========================================================================
[AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 1ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
Starting playback...
A: 1.0 (01.0) of 1.0 (01.0) 0.0%

Exiting... (End of file)

$ cat ~/.mplayer/config
cat: /home/daw/.mplayer/config: No such file or directory
$ mplayer /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav
MPlayer dev-SVN-r26936-4.3.0 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6400 @ 2.13GHz (Family: 6, Model: 15, Stepping: 6)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
Creating config file: /home/daw/.mplayer/config
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav.
Audio file file format detected.
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [pcm] Uncompressed PCM audio decoder
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 1 ch, s16le, 768.0 kbit/100.00% (ratio: 96000->96000)
Selected audio codec: [pcm] afm: pcm (Uncompressed PCM)
==========================================================================
[AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 1ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
Starting playback...
A: 1.1 (01.0) of 1.0 (01.0) 0.0%

Exiting... (End of file)

And the corresponding for a .mp3 file:

$ cat ~/.mplayer/config
[default]
# Write your default config options here!
ao=pulse
$ mplayer /tmp/american_storm.mp3
MPlayer dev-SVN-r26936-4.3.0 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6400 @ 2.13GHz (Family: 6, Model: 15, Stepping: 6)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.