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From: "Olivier Crête" <tester@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [treecleaner] Last rites: media-sound/alsaplayer
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 14:27:27
Message-Id: 1156170183.7841.2.camel@TesterBox.tester.ca
1 On Mon, 2006-21-08 at 18:29 +0530, Abhay Kedia wrote:
2 > On 8/20/06, Brian Harring <ferringb@×××××.com> wrote:
3 > > On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 09:14:24AM +0200, Michael Weyersh??user wrote:
4 > > > Abhay Kedia wrote:
5 > > > > Can someone suggest an appropriate alternate please?
6 > > >
7 > > > I don't know if it's appropriate since I never used alsaplayer, but
8 > > > mpeg123 is a good player for "Just play me this file on a console
9 > > > without much hassle". Other candidates would include mplayer and mpd.
10 > >
11 > > he meant mpg123 (as-is), and/or mpg321 (gpl2), not mpeg123...
12 > >
13 > I use alsaplayer to play KDE sounds as it works well with dmix and I
14 > can keep aRts disabled. All KDE sounds are ogg files and when I play
15 > them with mpg321, it just exits without producing any sound. I guess
16 > the only thing left for me to use is mplayer?
17
18 You can use ogg123
19
20 --
21 Olivier Crête
22 tester@g.o

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Re: [gentoo-dev] [treecleaner] Last rites: media-sound/alsaplayer Abhay Kedia <abhay.ilugd@×××××.com>