Greetings all;
Not really fussing but 340 of them will never be used on this particular machine, Its running linuxcnc, eg no audio except maybe possibly a whispered beep from the computers own speaker. No tv either.
But, I'll do this machine next, and it does have a problem, absolutely nothing in the menu's that can play an .mp3. I get the apps gui, and its animated likes its playing the .mp3, but nothing can coax a peep out of my speakers. The only cli app, aplay, reproduced it as 11 minutes of unmodulated pink noise.
Does it seem possible to fix this?
I had to hunt thru the bin directory's to find a copy of mplayer2 that would play it, sorta. .mp3 are always a little muddy, but this was very poorly done. The music wasn't too bad, but the voices weren't at all understandable. Have I forgotten just how crappy a 160 kilobit .mp3 sounds? A 44.1kilobit recording that alsa had to pump up to 48k, which probably didn't help. The original came from a windows machine that never heard how good an .ogg can sound.
Traceing thru the linkage from /usr/bin/mplayer, a link that points back to /etc/alternatives/mplayer, which itself is a link to /usr/bin/mplayer1 which does not exist.
Can this be fixed? That does seem to be the real problem, and its not something I can recall piddling with.
Not a fix but give MPV a try it seems a little nicer to me than mplayer especially if you are on an older distro like Jessie.
On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 11:40 AM, Gene Heskett gheskett@shentel.net wrote:
Greetings all;
Not really fussing but 340 of them will never be used on this particular machine, Its running linuxcnc, eg no audio except maybe possibly a whispered beep from the computers own speaker. No tv either.
But, I'll do this machine next, and it does have a problem, absolutely nothing in the menu's that can play an .mp3. I get the apps gui, and its animated likes its playing the .mp3, but nothing can coax a peep out of my speakers. The only cli app, aplay, reproduced it as 11 minutes of unmodulated pink noise.
Does it seem possible to fix this?
I had to hunt thru the bin directory's to find a copy of mplayer2 that would play it, sorta. .mp3 are always a little muddy, but this was very poorly done. The music wasn't too bad, but the voices weren't at all understandable. Have I forgotten just how crappy a 160 kilobit .mp3 sounds? A 44.1kilobit recording that alsa had to pump up to 48k, which probably didn't help. The original came from a windows machine that never heard how good an .ogg can sound.
Traceing thru the linkage from /usr/bin/mplayer, a link that points back to /etc/alternatives/mplayer, which itself is a link to /usr/bin/mplayer1 which does not exist.
Can this be fixed? That does seem to be the real problem, and its not something I can recall piddling with.
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On Wednesday 01 August 2018 10:44:07 am Pisini, John wrote:
Not a fix but give MPV a try it seems a little nicer to me than mplayer especially if you are on an older distro like Jessie.
Second that.
I use both mplayer and mpv under SMPlayer. Open 'Preferences' to switch the 'Multimedia engine.'
Overkill but I copy/pasted the 3 aptitude show's below.
Do note SMPlayer phones home for self update info, which you can disable by following:
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1188099&s=73e8a8809da60f5e4964...
and modifying the '/usr/bin/ni' script to:
michael@local [~]# cat /usr/bin/no-internet #!/bin/bash COMMAND="$1" shift for arg; do COMMAND="$COMMAND "$arg"" done sg no-internet "$COMMAND"
Then changing the SMPlayer menu entry to:
no-internet smplayer %U
* I changed 'ni' to 'no-internet' so I'd know what it was later, everything else came from the Internet...
Best, Michael
# aptitude show smplayer Package: smplayer State: installed Automatically installed: no Version: 18.6.0-1~trusty1 Priority: extra Section: graphics Maintainer: Ricardo Villalba rvm@users.sourceforge.net Architecture: amd64 Uncompressed Size: 15.4 M Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libqt4-dbus (>= 4:4.5.3), libqt4-network (>= 4:4.5.3), libqt4-script (>= 4:4.5.3), libqt4-xml (>= 4:4.5.3), libqtcore4 (>= 4:4.7.0~beta1), libqtgui4 (>= 4:4.8.0), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), mplayer | mplayer-nogui | mpv (>= 0.6.2) PreDepends: dpkg (>= 1.14.12ubuntu3) Recommends: smplayer-themes, smplayer-skins, smtube, alsa-utils, x11-utils, pulseaudio-utils Conflicts: smplayer Replaces: smplayer-l10n, smplayer-l10n, smplayer-translations, smplayer-translations Provides: smplayer-l10n, smplayer-translations Description: A great media player SMPlayer is a graphical user interface (GUI) for the award-winning mplayer and also for mpv. But apart from providing access for the most common and useful options of mplayer and mpv, SMPlayer adds other interesting features like the possibility to play Youtube videos or search and download subtitles. One of the main features is the ability to remember the state of a played file, so when you play it later it will be resumed at the same point and with the same settings.
# aptitude show mplayer Package: mplayer State: installed Automatically installed: yes Version: 2:1.1+dfsg1-0ubuntu3 Priority: extra Section: universe/graphics Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Architecture: amd64 Uncompressed Size: 5,139 k Depends: libaa1 (>= 1.4p5), libasound2 (>= 1.0.16), libavcodec54 (>= 6:9.1-1) | libavcodec-extra-54 (>= 6:9.11), libavformat54 (>= 6:9.1-1), libavutil52 (>= 6:9.1-1), libbluray1 (>= 1:0.2.2), libc6 (>= 2.15), libcaca0 (>= 0.99.beta17-1), libcdparanoia0 (>= 3.10.2+debian), libdca0, libdirectfb-1.2-9, libdvdread4 (>= 4.1.3), libenca0 (>= 1.9), libesd0 (>= 0.2.35), libfaad2 (>= 2.7), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.9.0), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1), libfribidi0 (>= 0.19.2), libgif4 (>= 4.1.4), libgl1-mesa-glx | libgl1, libjack-jackd2-0 (>= 1.9.5~dfsg-14) | libjack-0.116, libjpeg8 (>= 8c), liblircclient0, libmpeg2-4, libopenal1 (>= 1:1.13), libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4), libpostproc52 (>= 5:0.git20120217~), libpulse0 (>= 1:0.99.1), libsdl1.2debian (>= 1.2.11), libspeex1 (>= 1.2~beta3-1), libsvga1, libswscale2 (>= 6:9.1-1), libtheora0 (>= 1.0), libtinfo5, libvdpau1 (>= 0.2), libx11-6, libx264-142, libxext6, libxinerama1, libxv1, libxvidcore4 (>= 1.2.2), libxvmc1, libxxf86dga1, libxxf86vm1, zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4) Suggests: bzip2, fontconfig, mplayer-doc, netselect | fping, ttf-freefont Conflicts: mplayer2, mplayer2, mplayer Replaces: mencoder (< 2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-2), mencoder (< 2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-2), mplayer-doc (< 2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-2), mplayer-doc (< 2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-2), mplayer-nogui (< 2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-2), mplayer-nogui (< 2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-2), mplayer2, mplayer2 Provided by: mplayer2 Description: movie player for Unix-like systems MPlayer plays most MPEG, VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, FLI, RM, NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg, FILM, RoQ, PVA files, supported by many native, XAnim, RealPlayer, and Win32 DLL codecs. It can also play VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, RealMedia, and DivX movies.
Another big feature of MPlayer is the wide range of supported output drivers. It works with X11, Xv, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib, fbdev, DirectFB, but also SDL.
Not all of the upstream code is distributed in the source tarball. See the README.Debian and copyright files for details. Homepage: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/
# aptitude show mpv Package: mpv State: installed Automatically installed: no Version: 2:0.15.0+git7~trusty Priority: optional Section: video Maintainer: Doug McMahon mc631man@gmail.com Architecture: amd64 Uncompressed Size: 20.7 M Depends: libasound2 (>= 1.0.27), libbluray1 (>= 0.3.0~), libbs2b0, libc6 (>= 2.16), libcdio-cdda1 (>= 0.83), libcdio-paranoia1 (>= 0.83), libcdio13 (>= 0.83), libdrm2 (>= 2.4.25), libdvdnav4 (>= 4.1.3), libdvdread4 (>= 4.1.3), libfdk-aac1 (>= 0.1.4.0~trusty1), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.9.0), libfreetype6 (>= 2.4.10), libfribidi0 (>= 0.19.2), libgl1-mesa-glx | libgl1, libgme0 (>= 0.5.5), libgnutls26 (>= 2.12.17-0), libgsm1 (>= 1.0.13), libguess1 (>= 1.2.1), libharfbuzz0b (>= 0.9.9), libjack-jackd2-0 (>= 1.9.5~dfsg-14) | libjack-0.116, libjpeg8 (>= 8c), liblcms2-2 (>= 2.6), liblua5.2-0, libmp3lame0, libopenjpeg2, libopus0 (>= 1.0.3), libpulse0 (>= 1:1.0), librtmp0 (>= 2.3), librubberband2, libsmbclient (>= 2:4.0.3+dfsg1), libsoxr0 (>= 0.1.0), libspeex1 (>= 1.2~beta3-1), libssh-4 (>= 0.4.2), libtheora0 (>= 1.0), libtwolame0, libuchardet0, libv4l-0 (>= 0.5.0), libva1 (> 1.3.0~), libvdpau1 (>= 0.2), libvorbis0a (>= 1.1.2), libvorbisenc2 (>= 1.1.2), libvpx1 (>= 1.3.0), libwavpack1 (>= 4.40.0), libx11-6, libxcb-shape0, libxcb-xfixes0, libxcb1, libxext6, libxinerama1, libxrandr2 (>= 2:1.2.99.2), libxss1, libxv1, libxvidcore4 (>= 1.2.2), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.0.2) Recommends: libgl1-mesa-dri, i965-va-driver | libva-intel-vaapi-driver | va-driver, mesa-vdpau-drivers | nvidia-vdpau-driver | nvidia-driver-binary | nvidia-current | vdpau-driver Suggests: libaacs0 Conflicts: mpv Description: mplayer/mplayer2 based video player MPV is a versatile CLI movie player, based on mplayer and mplayer2. This build uses latest git FFmpeg & libass with some encoding support For online streaming recommended to install upstream youtube-dl & keep updated See here https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html Homepage: http://mpv.io/
Am Mittwoch 01 August 2018 schrieb Michael:
and modifying the '/usr/bin/ni' script to:
michael@local [~]# cat /usr/bin/no-internet #!/bin/bash COMMAND="$1" shift for arg; do COMMAND="$COMMAND "$arg"" done sg no-internet "$COMMAND"
Why not just:
sg no-internet "$@"
which would do the same as the code above, AFAIU.
Kind regards, Stefan
On Wednesday 01 August 2018 03:09:19 pm Stefan Krusche wrote:
Am Mittwoch 01 August 2018 schrieb Michael:
and modifying the '/usr/bin/ni' script to:
michael@local [~]# cat /usr/bin/no-internet #!/bin/bash COMMAND="$1" shift for arg; do COMMAND="$COMMAND "$arg"" done sg no-internet "$COMMAND"
Why not just:
sg no-internet "$@"
which would do the same as the code above, AFAIU.
Hi Stefan,
It doesn't do the same, but it's not my code, so...
AFAIR the difference is in how shell does the expansion, where "$@" can break single arguments in to garbage because of white spacing and the COMMAND="$COMMAND "$arg"" re-adds quotes properly to not break single arguments that have white space. (Or less likely it was an sg issue of passed in arguments?)
The full explanation is (was) buried on that thread somewhere, or on something that thread links(ed) to. It made sense to do at the time, but I'd need someone else with a much better depth of skill with bash/shell/sg to authoritatively explain it.
Best, Michael
On Wednesday 01 August 2018 13:49:32 Michael wrote:
On Wednesday 01 August 2018 10:44:07 am Pisini, John wrote:
Not a fix but give MPV a try it seems a little nicer to me than mplayer especially if you are on an older distro like Jessie.
Second that.
I use both mplayer and mpv under SMPlayer. Open 'Preferences' to switch the 'Multimedia engine.'
Overkill but I copy/pasted the 3 aptitude show's below.
Do note SMPlayer phones home for self update info, which you can disable by following:
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1188099&s=73e8a8809da60f5e49 641129388c7658
and modifying the '/usr/bin/ni' script to:
michael@local [~]# cat /usr/bin/no-internet #!/bin/bash COMMAND="$1" shift for arg; do COMMAND="$COMMAND "$arg"" done sg no-internet "$COMMAND"
Then changing the SMPlayer menu entry to:
no-internet smplayer %U
- I changed 'ni' to 'no-internet' so I'd know what it was later,
everything else came from the Internet...
Best, Michael
This is all on a 32 bit wheezy install. As this is the main machine for my local network, its always the last to get updated. This install is somewhat debian, but its been filtered thru what it takes to at least run the simulation of linuxcnc.
I am so far, not terribly impressed with debian stretch, 99% of what I can do from a wheezy box to another wheezy box in flat out rejected by stretch, even an ssh login is problematic and despite using a -Y argument for the login, nothing that needs X is allowed to run, so if I want to write gcode from a comfortable chair, I am stuck with nano for an editor. Frankly thats BS thats so poor it can't even grow weeds.
But I always install to a new drive, so I can move things I need to the new drive with mc. But with an invalid wife, (COPD, and broken bones from falling, so as the chief and only cook and potty/bottle washer here I don't often find the time to do a new release install and make it all work again. I've already done one stretch install and just getting networking usable is a cast iron bitch, nothing will take a gateway assignment until you get a wad of Kentucky Twist adjusted just right, and if you spit it out, the network goes away again. And I don't chew, haven't even had a cigarette in my face in 29+ years.
All this is of coarse not your fault, just jeering from the bleachers.
Summary 310 pkgs upgraded 5 new installed since smplaer wasn't All this will of course need a reboot, but I've 25 day uptime, so it about due anyway.
Thanks Michael.
I didn't catch the mpv, so I'll see if thats available for wheezy 32 bit. Then reboot.
On Wednesday 01 August 2018 17:47:39 Gene Heskett wrote:
On Wednesday 01 August 2018 13:49:32 Michael wrote:
On Wednesday 01 August 2018 10:44:07 am Pisini, John wrote:
Not a fix but give MPV a try it seems a little nicer to me than mplayer especially if you are on an older distro like Jessie.
Second that.
I use both mplayer and mpv under SMPlayer. Open 'Preferences' to switch the 'Multimedia engine.'
Overkill but I copy/pasted the 3 aptitude show's below.
Do note SMPlayer phones home for self update info, which you can disable by following:
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1188099&s=73e8a8809da60f5e49 641129388c7658
and modifying the '/usr/bin/ni' script to:
michael@local [~]# cat /usr/bin/no-internet #!/bin/bash COMMAND="$1" shift for arg; do COMMAND="$COMMAND "$arg"" done sg no-internet "$COMMAND"
Then changing the SMPlayer menu entry to:
no-internet smplayer %U
- I changed 'ni' to 'no-internet' so I'd know what it was later,
everything else came from the Internet...
Best, Michael
This is all on a 32 bit wheezy install. As this is the main machine for my local network, its always the last to get updated. This install is somewhat debian, but its been filtered thru what it takes to at least run the simulation of linuxcnc.
I am so far, not terribly impressed with debian stretch, 99% of what I can do from a wheezy box to another wheezy box in flat out rejected by stretch, even an ssh login is problematic and despite using a -Y argument for the login, nothing that needs X is allowed to run, so if I want to write gcode from a comfortable chair, I am stuck with nano for an editor. Frankly thats BS thats so poor it can't even grow weeds.
But I always install to a new drive, so I can move things I need to the new drive with mc. But with an invalid wife, (COPD, and broken bones from falling, so as the chief and only cook and potty/bottle washer here I don't often find the time to do a new release install and make it all work again. I've already done one stretch install and just getting networking usable is a cast iron bitch, nothing will take a gateway assignment until you get a wad of Kentucky Twist adjusted just right, and if you spit it out, the network goes away again. And I don't chew, haven't even had a cigarette in my face in 29+ years.
All this is of coarse not your fault, just jeering from the bleachers.
Summary 310 pkgs upgraded 5 new installed since smplaer wasn't All this will of course need a reboot, but I've 25 day uptime, so it about due anyway.
Thanks Michael.
I didn't catch the mpv, so I'll see if thats available for wheezy 32 bit. Then reboot.
I've also had some problems getting into Debian Stretch (or Devuan Ascii), but Jessie runs pretty well for me (although I still use a couple of Wheezy packages). But if you've tried Stretch, then I assume you've also tried Jessie, right?
Bill
On Wednesday 01 August 2018 21:43:26 William Morder wrote:
On Wednesday 01 August 2018 17:47:39 Gene Heskett wrote:
On Wednesday 01 August 2018 13:49:32 Michael wrote:
On Wednesday 01 August 2018 10:44:07 am Pisini, John wrote:
Not a fix but give MPV a try it seems a little nicer to me than mplayer especially if you are on an older distro like Jessie.
Second that.
I use both mplayer and mpv under SMPlayer. Open 'Preferences' to switch the 'Multimedia engine.'
Overkill but I copy/pasted the 3 aptitude show's below.
Do note SMPlayer phones home for self update info, which you can disable by following:
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1188099&s=73e8a8809da60f 5e49 641129388c7658
and modifying the '/usr/bin/ni' script to:
michael@local [~]# cat /usr/bin/no-internet #!/bin/bash COMMAND="$1" shift for arg; do COMMAND="$COMMAND "$arg"" done sg no-internet "$COMMAND"
Then changing the SMPlayer menu entry to:
no-internet smplayer %U
- I changed 'ni' to 'no-internet' so I'd know what it was later,
everything else came from the Internet...
Best, Michael
This is all on a 32 bit wheezy install. As this is the main machine for my local network, its always the last to get updated. This install is somewhat debian, but its been filtered thru what it takes to at least run the simulation of linuxcnc.
I am so far, not terribly impressed with debian stretch, 99% of what I can do from a wheezy box to another wheezy box in flat out rejected by stretch, even an ssh login is problematic and despite using a -Y argument for the login, nothing that needs X is allowed to run, so if I want to write gcode from a comfortable chair, I am stuck with nano for an editor. Frankly thats BS thats so poor it can't even grow weeds.
But I always install to a new drive, so I can move things I need to the new drive with mc. But with an invalid wife, (COPD, and broken bones from falling, so as the chief and only cook and potty/bottle washer here I don't often find the time to do a new release install and make it all work again. I've already done one stretch install and just getting networking usable is a cast iron bitch, nothing will take a gateway assignment until you get a wad of Kentucky Twist adjusted just right, and if you spit it out, the network goes away again. And I don't chew, haven't even had a cigarette in my face in 29+ years.
All this is of coarse not your fault, just jeering from the bleachers.
Summary 310 pkgs upgraded 5 new installed since smplaer wasn't All this will of course need a reboot, but I've 25 day uptime, so it about due anyway.
Thanks Michael.
I didn't catch the mpv, so I'll see if thats available for wheezy 32 bit. Then reboot.
I've also had some problems getting into Debian Stretch (or Devuan Ascii), but Jessie runs pretty well for me (although I still use a couple of Wheezy packages). But if you've tried Stretch, then I assume you've also tried Jessie, right?
Bill
Right Bill, in fact the jessie flavored raspian on an r-pi3b is probably the most stable install on the premises in spite of a pinned ancient kernel. But its also realtime built. The r-pi is running lcnc and moving an 11x36 Sheldon lathe quite nicely. Barring power outages which exposed an order of detection of the two SSD's plugged into it (I need to convert fstab to use Label= to remove the detection order so it didn't reboot, hung at trying to mount what should have been /dev/sdb2 as /dev/sda3. Hung the boot and I finally remembered where I had written the root pw, got into that and commented those 2 lines back out of fstab, rebooted, moved cables from usb-2 jack tio usb-2 jack and rebooted till dmesg showed them in the proper order, and everythings cool again. Not having a ups on that one shows config errors when the lights go out unexpectedly. :)
Pi's don't need much of a ups, 100 watts is a sublime overkill. I should get a little one for it, but if I fix the mounts, its fine. And thats about $100 cheaper. Call me cheap, I'll probably answer. ;-)
Thanks Bill.
On Wednesday 01 August 2018 19:25:14 Gene Heskett wrote:
On Wednesday 01 August 2018 21:43:26 William Morder wrote:
On Wednesday 01 August 2018 17:47:39 Gene Heskett wrote:
On Wednesday 01 August 2018 13:49:32 Michael wrote:
On Wednesday 01 August 2018 10:44:07 am Pisini, John wrote:
Not a fix but give MPV a try it seems a little nicer to me than mplayer especially if you are on an older distro like Jessie.
Second that.
I use both mplayer and mpv under SMPlayer. Open 'Preferences' to switch the 'Multimedia engine.'
Overkill but I copy/pasted the 3 aptitude show's below.
Do note SMPlayer phones home for self update info, which you can disable by following:
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1188099&s=73e8a8809da60f 5e49 641129388c7658
and modifying the '/usr/bin/ni' script to:
michael@local [~]# cat /usr/bin/no-internet #!/bin/bash COMMAND="$1" shift for arg; do COMMAND="$COMMAND "$arg"" done sg no-internet "$COMMAND"
Then changing the SMPlayer menu entry to:
no-internet smplayer %U
- I changed 'ni' to 'no-internet' so I'd know what it was later,
everything else came from the Internet...
Best, Michael
This is all on a 32 bit wheezy install. As this is the main machine for my local network, its always the last to get updated. This install is somewhat debian, but its been filtered thru what it takes to at least run the simulation of linuxcnc.
I am so far, not terribly impressed with debian stretch, 99% of what I can do from a wheezy box to another wheezy box in flat out rejected by stretch, even an ssh login is problematic and despite using a -Y argument for the login, nothing that needs X is allowed to run, so if I want to write gcode from a comfortable chair, I am stuck with nano for an editor. Frankly thats BS thats so poor it can't even grow weeds.
But I always install to a new drive, so I can move things I need to the new drive with mc. But with an invalid wife, (COPD, and broken bones from falling, so as the chief and only cook and potty/bottle washer here I don't often find the time to do a new release install and make it all work again. I've already done one stretch install and just getting networking usable is a cast iron bitch, nothing will take a gateway assignment until you get a wad of Kentucky Twist adjusted just right, and if you spit it out, the network goes away again. And I don't chew, haven't even had a cigarette in my face in 29+ years.
All this is of coarse not your fault, just jeering from the bleachers.
Summary 310 pkgs upgraded 5 new installed since smplaer wasn't All this will of course need a reboot, but I've 25 day uptime, so it about due anyway.
Thanks Michael.
I didn't catch the mpv, so I'll see if thats available for wheezy 32 bit. Then reboot.
I've also had some problems getting into Debian Stretch (or Devuan Ascii), but Jessie runs pretty well for me (although I still use a couple of Wheezy packages). But if you've tried Stretch, then I assume you've also tried Jessie, right?
Bill
Right Bill, in fact the jessie flavored raspian on an r-pi3b is probably the most stable install on the premises in spite of a pinned ancient kernel. But its also realtime built. The r-pi is running lcnc and moving an 11x36 Sheldon lathe quite nicely. Barring power outages which exposed an order of detection of the two SSD's plugged into it (I need to convert fstab to use Label= to remove the detection order so it didn't reboot, hung at trying to mount what should have been /dev/sdb2 as /dev/sda3. Hung the boot and I finally remembered where I had written the root pw, got into that and commented those 2 lines back out of fstab, rebooted, moved cables from usb-2 jack tio usb-2 jack and rebooted till dmesg showed them in the proper order, and everythings cool again. Not having a ups on that one shows config errors when the lights go out unexpectedly. :)
Pi's don't need much of a ups, 100 watts is a sublime overkill. I should get a little one for it, but if I fix the mounts, its fine. And thats about $100 cheaper. Call me cheap, I'll probably answer. ;-)
Thanks Bill.
Not cheap, but rather thrifty; that used to be a compliment, not an insult. But now if we don't buy more than we need, we are not good consumers.
If we have a contest for cheap and/or thrifty, I would bet that I am cheaper than you. But I'm not cheap about everything. I have been known to spend exorbiant sums on things I really want, but then I don't want much.
Bill
Pisini, John wrote:
Not a fix but give MPV a try it seems a little nicer to me than mplayer especially if you are on an older distro like Jessie.
I ported kplayer to trinity some time ago - it is my favorite player (no kmplayer but kplayer). It is also an interface to mplayer, but IMO better one. The admins were kind to accept the patch.
On Wednesday 01 August 2018 18:18:05 deloptes wrote:
Pisini, John wrote:
Not a fix but give MPV a try it seems a little nicer to me than mplayer especially if you are on an older distro like Jessie.
I ported kplayer to trinity some time ago - it is my favorite player (no kmplayer but kplayer). It is also an interface to mplayer, but IMO better one. The admins were kind to accept the patch.
mpv apparently came in with jessie, not available for wheezy.
Gene Heskett wrote:
Traceing thru the linkage from /usr/bin/mplayer, a link that points back to /etc/alternatives/mplayer, which itself is a link to /usr/bin/mplayer1 which does not exist.
Can this be fixed? That does seem to be the real problem, and its not something I can recall piddling with.
you can use update-alternatives, but perhaps better remove the link - I don't have it in stretch
you can try ffplay to test audio it will also install the codecs required.
regards
On Wednesday 01 August 2018 18:21:28 deloptes wrote:
Gene Heskett wrote:
Traceing thru the linkage from /usr/bin/mplayer, a link that points back to /etc/alternatives/mplayer, which itself is a link to /usr/bin/mplayer1 which does not exist.
Can this be fixed? That does seem to be the real problem, and its not something I can recall piddling with.
you can use update-alternatives, but perhaps better remove the link - I don't have it in stretch
you can try ffplay to test audio it will also install the codecs required.
regards
alsa's speaker-test works fine, and ffplay isn't findable in what wheezy repo's remain online.
I did find something that resembles a .conf update gone screwy, fixed that and now Noatun works, and with its equalizer working 24/7, mp3's sound a little better. So this problem is solved for the time being.
Thanks for the hand holding, deloptes, its appreciated.
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