13 May
2010
13 May
'10
11:52 a.m.
Hi,
On 13 May 2010 11:45, Ted Harding Ted.Harding@manchester.ac.uk wrote:
On 13-May-10 10:23:16, Simon Royal wrote:
However, it will not play any type of audio file. I have tried MP3, MID and WAV in both Movie Player and Exaile and no sound at all. I tried
Run mplayer on the command line and have a look at the output it generates.
(Advent 8117). It turned out that the default sound system at boot was OSS; I sussed out somehow (I've now forgotten how) that it would
No one should really be using OSS (context = sound) anymore. But if one runs mplayer on the command line, it will let you know if it's using oss or alsa or some other sound backend. It's also possible to switch which one it uses - which makes it a nice debugging tool.
Srdjan