On Fri, 13 Nov 2020 15:15:11 -0500, chris hermansen wrote: > > [1 <text/plain; UTF-8 (quoted-printable)>] > John and list, > > On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 9:38 AM John Covici <covici@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Fri, 13 Nov 2020 12:11:33 -0500, > > chris hermansen wrote: > > > > > > [1 <text/plain; UTF-8 (quoted-printable)>] > > > John and list; > > > > > > On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 8:28 AM John Covici <covici@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > wrote: > > > > > > > Hi. I have a ?Dragonfly Red which is supposed to be a USB dac, and I > > > > am unable to connectit with alsa. > > > > [various bits deleted] > > > > > Thanks for your quick reply. I would like to use a regular console > > player such as mpv or some such to play directly to alsa without pulse > > audio, and when I do /proc/asound/card1/stream0 I get much the same as > > you. so, for mpv, they have --audio-device=alsa/ and then they want > > the alsa device name, so what can I put there? Here is my current > > /etc/asound.conf . > > > > Check out this link: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/3955 > > It seems to suggest something like the following: > > @NapoleonWils0n <https://github.com/NapoleonWils0n> > > You might try audio-device=alsa/plughw:1,0 like example here > > https://mpv.io/manual/stable/#options-audio-device > > Didn't test it myself, though > > > > > > > The second card mentioned in the .conf is another dac which I have, > > but I could put a third stanza in there, if I knew what to put. > > > > I don't have any suggestions about the .conf as I've never used one myself. > Well, I got it to work! the plughw was the trick, and I was able to use the mix plugin to play more than one thing at a time -- actually I don't do that, but sometimes I want to play two things at once and pause and switch between them. So, thanks much and I hope this can help others in the future. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici wb2una covici@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
