[FIXED] Kernel 5.5.12 onwards MPlayer problems

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peebee · #1 Post by **peebee** » Wed 25 Mar 2020, 13:36

FIXED - see last post

Kernel 5.5.12 released 25-mar-2020 seems to have significant problems for MPlayer.

The 5.5.12 changelog does seem to have a lot of sound changes mentioned....
https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel ... Log-5.5.12

Thanks
peebee

peebee · #2 Post by **peebee** » Thu 26 Mar 2020, 08:57

5.5.13 appeared the same day - but has the same sound problem as 5.5.12

5.4.28 also has the problem.....

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux4noobs/co ... my_output/

tallboy · #3 Post by **tallboy** » Sat 28 Mar 2020, 00:57

There seem to be an eternal sound problem in many Puppy versions up through the years. Are these issues real kernel problems, or are they limited to Puppy builds? Do you know if other distros using the same kernels, experience the same problems?

peebee · #4 Post by **peebee** » Thu 02 Apr 2020, 08:11

Using strace from devx shows that MPlayer is looping:

write(2, "[AO OSS] Can't set audio device "..., 74) = 74
ioctl(4, SNDCTL_DSP_SETFMT, 0xffda03f0) = -1 ENXIO (No such device or address)

Anybody know what this might mean?

peebee · #5 Post by **peebee** » Thu 02 Apr 2020, 08:43

OK - can be fixed by configuring MPlayer to use alsa...

Put:
ao=alsa

into ~/.mplayer/config

bigpup · #6 Post by **bigpup** » Thu 02 Apr 2020, 15:24

Good find peebee!

You going to tell this to the rest of the Linux world

8Geee · #7 Post by **8Geee** » Thu 02 Apr 2020, 22:34

Just curious, does apulse still work after the ao=alsa setting?

What if ao=apulse?

Sorry, running older stuff w/o apulse, but got to thinking after your revelation.

8Geee

enrique · #8 Post by **enrique** » Fri 03 Apr 2020, 03:25

At the moment I have no need for this kernel. But I recalled at least two guys that could had benefit of this new kernel. So my question, do we have a download link for the pre-build with AUFS.

peebee · #9 Post by **peebee** » Fri 03 Apr 2020, 06:05

enrique wrote:do we have a download link for the pre-build with AUFS.

Link n.b. need fdrv firmware

8Geee wrote:What if ao=apulse?

Code: Select all

# mplayer -ao help
MPlayer 1.4-9.1.0 (C) 2000-2019 MPlayer Team
Available audio output drivers:
	oss	OSS/ioctl audio output
	alsa	ALSA-0.9.x-1.x audio output
	esd	EsounD audio output
	sdl	SDLlib audio output
	openal	OpenAL audio output
	mpegpes	DVB audio output
	v4l2	V4L2 MPEG Audio Decoder output
	null	Null audio output
	pcm	RAW PCM/WAVE file writer audio output

This is a config for MPlayer only which doesn't use apulse.

bigpup wrote:tell this to the rest of the Linux world

Have posted on LinuxQuestions.org Slackware kernel thread.

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[FIXED] Kernel 5.5.12 onwards MPlayer problems

[FIXED] Kernel 5.5.12 onwards MPlayer problems

now 5.5.13 & 5.4.28

CLOSED - FIXED