2010/5/13 Mihai Sucan <mihai.sucan at gmail.com> > Hello Reimar et al! > > I found the following Ubuntu PPA repo: > > https://launchpad.net/~scottritchie/+archive/ppa<https://launchpad.net/%7Escottritchie/+archive/ppa> > > ... which includes the latest release of OpenAL. I installed it and now > mplayer works fine. Yay! > > If anyone else has this problem, just upgrade OpenAL. Thanks to everyone, > and especially to you Reimar for pointing me into the right direction. > > > Best regards, > Mihai > > The order of ao can be changed , (i.e. default ao may be different ) some distrubtion may place pulse as default ao , when pulse failed , mplayer try to use another ao , finally when all ao failed , it may fall back to use oss which need exclusive access of the hardware > > > Le Mon, 10 May 2010 22:36:47 +0300, Reimar D?ffinger < > Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> a ?crit: > > Simple issue simple solution: Ubuntu as usual completely skipped any and >> all >> quality checks (though in this case they are not the only ones) and >> shippes >> a completely broken OpenAL version which does ALSA stuff whenever the >> library >> gets loaded (whoever came up with this deserves to be banned from any and >> all >> software development for at least a year). >> If PulseAudio is the only thing that this breaks you're lucky. >> Solutions: >> 1) Remove OpenAL, completely and compile your own MPlayer >> 2) Get a non-broken OpenAL package from somewhere and use that instead >> 3) Use some kind of wrapper library that redirects ALSA accesses or do >> some >> other thing that makes sure OpenAL can't actually do anything bad to your >> soundcard via ALSA. >> > > > -- > Mihai Sucan > http://www.robodesign.ro > _______________________________________________ > MPlayer-users mailing list > MPlayer-users at mplayerhq.hu > https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users >
