[LAU] mplayer no go with snd-hdsp

[Fons Adriaensen]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 04:15:59AM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:

> I've recently gotten my RME Multiface up and working quite
> satisfactorally with current Linux kernels. I'm very happy, especially
> as I had a long run of it not working for some reason I never teased
> out.
> 
> So, I find I can aplay and arecord, and I can use ecasound, and a few
> other cli tools.
> 
> But, I can't use mplayer. Am I the only one? Anyone else tried mplayer
> on the Multiface?
 
As others have already suggested: use Jack. For everything.
I have this alias for viewing videos:

alias vv='mplayer -ao jack -fs'

which works everywhere.


Tschuss,

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