xine sound crippled

[Zbigniew Koziol]

Andrej Marjan wrote:
> On February 27, 2009 11:11:16 pm Zbigniew Koziol wrote:
>
>   
>> After some extra reading on from googled links (usually, a really waste
>> of time) and experimenting, now I have two more comments. How accurate -
>> I am not sure.
>>
>> 1. No good documentation on how to use mplayer. Or, rather, so many
>> options on command line that are hard to understand that one can get
>> crazy very fast and go back to windows rather.
>>     
>
> You can ignore most of the options. One nice thing about the preponderance of 
> options is that you can often do whatever you want with mplayer. For instance 
> it's probably the easiest way to rip an arbitrary media stream from the 
> Internet, once you figure out the appropriate handful of flags.
>
>   
>> 2. I suspect that my video card, which is somewhat outdated (ATI
>> Mach64/3DRag) might be the source of the problem with video.
>>     
>
> I don't know why you're not seeing video with mplayer, it's Just Worked for me 
> for years.
>
> For video, the option is -vo and allows you to select the video output driver. 
> I don't know what works with such an old video card, but there's only so many 
> drivers so one of them is bound to work.
>
> Some (all?) of mplayer is configurable graphically via the gmplayer GUI 
> version.
>   
gmplayer is old (last update 2 years ago). I can not install it on 
Centos. It looks like it was done for windows.

zb.


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