Hi Toby, On Tue, 7 May 2002, Toby Fisher wrote: > > Hi Chuck, ok, do you think I need some switch to explicitly tell it to > just try to play audio, not video, despite the fact I'm using vo=null? No. Just entering "mplayer filename.asf" on my system plays the audio stream fine. But if I run "mplayer -dumpaudio filename.asf" I get the errors you describe. No switches necessary to just hear the audio on my system. > Also, where do you think I could get these font files from? Do you think > I might need to install X and compile with that, oh I really, really > really hope not. I have no idea where to get those font.desc files from. They are not included with any of the components of the mplayer package that I have here. As for installing "X", I have installed X on this system, but it is not running when I run mplayer. It is not that hard to install actually, and some applications seem to be more comfortable if they can find the X libraries. If you have the disk space I would recommend installing X just for insurance. Back to mplayer - my config file contains "vo=null" and "ao=oss" and that is all. And I can play mpg and mpeg files okay, and also dump their audio okay too. The resulting audio files are mp3. I have not yet experimented with .avi or other movie formats. The experimental .asf files I have managed to download are certainly not playlists, but full fledged native movies with sound track, video track, and subtitles in multiple languages as far as I can tell. Chuck -- Visit me at http://www.valstar.net/~hallenbeck The Moon is Waning Crescent (18% of Full)
