[K12OSN] Discussion on sound (not meant as a rant)

[Gentgeen]

On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 16:02:47 -0500
"David Hopkins" <dahopkins429 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well,  I have now recompiled mplayer with only esd sound support.  If
> launched from the command line, it works (mplayer some_file).  But,
> launched using gmplayer, it no longer hangs on launch. Instead, it
> hangs/crashes when you try to start the video.  Very irritating since
> gmplayer is just a link to mplayer.  So, why does mplayer crash with
> the gui?  Any ideas? 

They do have different config files... could that be your problem?
Looking at my system, I see 

~/.mplayer/gui.conf
~/.mplayer/conf

I remember a while back when I changed my sound card, that I had to
delete all the gui.* files in ~/.mplayer/  mplayer worked fine, but
gmplayer would crash with some kind of sound error.

> I can start trying to use various options to
> turn-off things like sse, mmx, etc but before doing so, is there any
> good reason mplayer would play with mplayer file, and not when
> selecting the file from the gui?  This is a major issue for the school
> admin.  The teachers are not going to be happy being asked to launch
> from a command line.


> 
> Or, how do I associate .mov and .asf files with mplayer so that
> double-clicking them launches them with mplayer?




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