[linux-audio-user] MPlayer and ALSA difficulties

[Lee Revell]

On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 01:34, cecil pierce wrote:
> I currently installed (from source) the current version of MPlayer.  I 
> am experiencing difficulty playing video files if I use the MPlayer ALSA 
> drivers (the OSS MPlayer drivers work fine).  I get this:
> 
> ALSA lib control.c:654:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL /dev/mixer99%
> alsa-control: mixer attach /dev/mixer error: No such file or directory

This was a bug in mplayer that is fixed in the current CVS version.

Lee