mplayer lockup - was: Re: [K12OSN] Sound on terminals, Was: XKB Error

[Gavin Chester]

On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 03:37 -0800, Rob Owens wrote:
> On my Mandrake 10.1 system with ltsp on top, I am
> using xmms successfully.  Mplayer locks up and has to
> be killed, but I'm not sure if that's sound-related or
> not.   Those are the only 2 sound apps I've tried.

-snip-

try mplayer with "-nosound" option if running from CLI.  
See "mplayer --help".  Works for me running movies beyond the
capabilities of my ol' PII450MHz 
-- 
Regards, 
        Gavin Chester (Principal)

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