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**geterman** · 01-25-2007, 04:52 PM

I have terrible sound when I play videos on kplayer and mplayer does not play anything. Keeps giving me a fatal error

Psumoni · 01-26-2007, 07:34 PM

I had a similar problem.

Go into the KDE sound setup, and disable the KDE sound system.

Next go into mplayer's audio config.

Go to Preferences -> Audio, select SD Lib Audio Output as driver and click Configure Driver -> set driver to alsa and set mixer and mixer channel to default.

Sound is great in mplayer and from freevo playing mp3's but amarok and kaffeine both still sound like crap.

**geterman** · 01-27-2007, 07:28 AM

Will that fix the error message I get whenever i try to play anything:

Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.

Psumoni · 01-27-2007, 11:08 AM

Probably.

**geterman** · 01-27-2007, 11:43 PM

No that did not fix it, i am still getting the error.

Psumoni · 01-29-2007, 11:58 PM

Well, I got sound working in other programs, turned the KDE Sound system back on, using OSS. Now amaroK works when set to auto-detect, but I still have to have mplayer set as I instructed in the earlier post.

Did you disable the KDE Sound system?

**geterman** · 01-30-2007, 04:56 AM

i went to settings/sound and media/ and unchecked the enable sound system setting.

bguin2wvu · 02-23-2007, 05:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by geterman

i went to settings/sound and media/ and unchecked the enable sound system setting.

I'm getting that same error that you described. I noticed your post's timestamp is from a while back, so I'm wondering if you fixed it and how?

I was able to play videos after I changed the video output to 'x11' as opposed to 'xv' in the preferences. Problem is, the video does not stretch when I set it to fullscreen.

If anyone else has any insight, feel free to reply...

Thanks.

01-25-2007, 04:52 PM	#1
geterman Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 71 Trader Feedback: 0	Gentoo KDE sound problems I have terrible sound when I play videos on kplayer and mplayer does not play anything. Keeps giving me a fatal error

01-26-2007, 07:34 PM	#2
Psumoni Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 18 Trader Feedback: 0	I had a similar problem. Go into the KDE sound setup, and disable the KDE sound system. Next go into mplayer's audio config. Go to Preferences -> Audio, select SD Lib Audio Output as driver and click Configure Driver -> set driver to alsa and set mixer and mixer channel to default. Sound is great in mplayer and from freevo playing mp3's but amarok and kaffeine both still sound like crap.

01-27-2007, 07:28 AM	#3
geterman Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 71 Trader Feedback: 0	Will that fix the error message I get whenever i try to play anything: Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.

01-27-2007, 11:08 AM	#4
Psumoni Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 18 Trader Feedback: 0	Probably.

01-27-2007, 11:43 PM	#5
geterman Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 71 Trader Feedback: 0	No that did not fix it, i am still getting the error.

01-29-2007, 11:58 PM	#6
Psumoni Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 18 Trader Feedback: 0	Well, I got sound working in other programs, turned the KDE Sound system back on, using OSS. Now amaroK works when set to auto-detect, but I still have to have mplayer set as I instructed in the earlier post. Did you disable the KDE Sound system?

01-30-2007, 04:56 AM	#7
geterman Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 71 Trader Feedback: 0	i went to settings/sound and media/ and unchecked the enable sound system setting.

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