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From: Alan McKinnon <alan@××××××××××××××××.za>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] no sound with mplayer
Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2007 19:44:14
Message-Id: 200710072129.23793.alan@linuxholdings.co.za
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] no sound with mplayer by pat
1 On Sunday 07 October 2007, pat wrote:
2 > Hello,
3 >
4 > Time to time I have problem with mplayer. The sound for some video
5 > files doesn't work (mainly for DVDs). The problem is:
6 > ***
7 > Requested audio codec family [a52] (afm=liba52) not available.
8 > Enable it at compilation.
9 > Requested audio codec family [ac3] (afm=libac3) not available.
10 > Enable it at compilation.
11 > Requested audio codec family [hwac3] (afm=hwac3) not available.
12 > Enable it at compilation.
13 > Cannot find codec for audio format 0x2000.
14 > ***
15 >
16 > Please, could someone point me to the solution?
17
18 You haven't supplied any real information about your system, so it's
19 impossible to tell what the problem really is. Based on your error
20 message the first thing I'd check is if you have the required codec
21 support compiled into mplayer.
22
23 Please post the output of 'eix -e mplayer'
24
25 alan
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29 --
30 Optimists say the glass is half full,
31 Pessimists say the glass is half empty,
32 Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be?
33
34 Alan McKinnon
35 alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za
36 +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five
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Re: [gentoo-user] no sound with mplayer [SOLVED] pat <pat@××××××××.org>