gmplayer error with ALSA output plugin

gmplayer error with ALSA output plugin

[Lee Revell]

When I select the 'ALSA 0.9.x/1.0.x' option for audio output in
gmplayer, the sound seems to work, but I get tons of popup windows with
this error:

alsa-control: mixer attach /dev/mixer: no such file or directory

As a result I am forced to use OSS emulation mode, which causes latency
problems due to its use of ioctl().  /dev/mixer exists and is writable
by the user.  In fact when using OSS emulation mode this is the mixer
device used.  Is this just a bug in gmplayer?

I am using debian unstable, here is where I got the gmplayer packages:

deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat unstable main

deb http://dept-info.labri.fr/~danjean/debian unstable main
deb-src http://dept-info.labri.fr/~danjean/debian unstable main

Lee



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Re: gmplayer error with ALSA output plugin

[Clemens Ladisch]

Lee Revell wrote:
> When I select the 'ALSA 0.9.x/1.0.x' option for audio output in
> gmplayer, the sound seems to work, but I get tons of popup windows with
> this error:
>
> alsa-control: mixer attach /dev/mixer: no such file or directory

"/dev/mixer" is an OSS device.  The ALSA mixer would have a device
name like "hw:0".

Apparently, gmplayer doesn't change the device name when changing the
device type.


Regards,
Clemens




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