Mplayer almost no sound in fc4

[oldman]

Barry Yu wrote:

> In same FC4 both xine and mplayer installed, xine works fine, but 
> mplayer has very very weak audio - only can hear the dvd film sound 
> when turn hardware and software vol to max but still can hear very 
> little, equivalent to 1/4 sound level  when played with xine.
> I used yum installed from livna.
>
    By default mplayer uses the older linux sound subsystem. make a file 
in ~.mplayer/ named config and edit it to include:

ao=alsa

HTH

Scott