[mythtv-users] What's the minimum that I can do...

[Michael T. Dean]

On 01/23/2006 04:57 PM, William Lewis wrote:
> I think mplayer is probably the most flexible...  'mplayer -ao alsa 
> filename' should do it, I think...  If you want to get creative with it, 
> feel free to screw around with the -ao option, using -ao alsa:device=hw=0.0 
> for example.  Run 'mplayer -ao help' for more information about this option.
>   
Or, to avoid having issues with MPlayer because you have a sound server 
(artsd, esd, ...) running (did you remember to turn it off--it should be 
off for Myth, too), use aplay.  However, aplay only supports a small 
number of file formats, so stick to the "english.au" sound Will linked 
to above.

Mike