Thus spake Robert Zwerus on Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 11:56:35AM CDT
> On Monday 17 April 2006 18:41, Lindsay Haisley wrote:
> > The sound card is a Turtle Beach Catalina which uses the evny24ht.  I had
> > some initial problems with it since it requires S32_LE input to alsa
> > supported devices which wouldn't work unless I spec'd this format in my
> > .asoundrc.
> >
> > mlayer is at v1.0.20060217
> What happens when you play without sound, e.g. mplayer blah.avi -ao null?

'mplayer /blah.../blah.mov' plays too fast.  I can't slow it down to a proper
speed.

'mplayer /blah.../blah.mov -ao null' appears to play at a proper speed w. no
sound.

Interesting.

I can't seem to use mplayer for streaming clips in galeon since I get no
sound at all.  The process table shows an executing mplayer with options:

mplayer -really-quiet -nojoystick -nofs -zoom -vo xv,x11 -ao
esd,alsa,oss,arts,null -osdlevel 0 http://url/blah.mov

Not sure if this invocation format is coming from plugger or some other
place.  Looks like mplayer is falling through to the null output driver even
though alsa works, and esd is running.  Speed appears normal, but no sound. 
I can't turn up the sound with the number keys.

I'm suspicious of the sound card.  I have a Creative SB Audigy 2 ZS which I
ordered which has an emu10K2 with which I've had previous (positive)
experience in Linux.

I have a split output system here, which makes things a little complicated
since I require that it work properly in Linux.  Playback of CDs, wav, mp3
and other files from xmms and cd players gets routed to an external amp and
a couple of small JBL studio control room monitors.  The beeps and bops of
gnome sounds indicating desktop actions get routed to a couple of cheap
speakers built into my monitor.  Getting this split system to work with a
new card is always a PITA.

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