On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 09:28:34AM +1000, Royal Ozma of Oz wrote: > I think that there is a workaround for mplayer to force it to use ALSA: > > It can be made by adding the file "~/.mplayer/config" with these lines: > > # Write your default config options here! > ao="alsa" > softvol="true" > volume="15"
> > > deb http://packages.devuan.org/devuan/ experimental main > > Good, but has anything been done to make it compatible with mpv, > > mplayer (etc)? They seem to dynamically link to libpulse-simple.so > > which results in a disasterous degradation in performance rendering them > > pretty much useless. I really should have checked that, but the man pages for mplayer & mpv are so long, I fear that I have never managed to get through everything :-) It looks as if mpv has similar options. Thanks for finding this. But I do wonder whether there are other programs that will seek some pulseaudio libary before alsa without such overrides, in which case there might be problems. ael _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
