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40 years ago today (August 12, 1981) IBM released the IBM Personal
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Hi Lukas,
you can get a list of sound drivers with mplayer -ao help
and I find it unlikely that my HDA sound chip actually is
Windows Sound System compatible. However, -ao allegro is
NOT giving me sound, -ao au and the default setting are
giving me sound only on one speaker and -ao wss works in
Has anyone ever tested playany?
Its a simple, but fairly solid media player, including aif files.
On Thu, 12 Aug 2021, Eric Auer wrote:
Hi!
I have done a quick test with mpxplay and mplayer:
Mpxplay works out of the box for mp3 files on my
HDA hardware. With mplayer for DOS, the default
Parameter -wss will mean Windows Sound System and from ISA sound cards I
have only OPTi sound card that supports it (
https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=70060). Sound Blaster cards do not
implement WSS by default. So I would not say it works in DOS. It needs to
work through Allegro framework
Hi!
I have done a quick test with mpxplay and mplayer:
Mpxplay works out of the box for mp3 files on my
HDA hardware. With mplayer for DOS, the default
"aulib" only uses one speaker, but "-ao wss" will
select a driver which works in stereo. The option
"-ao allegro" fails to produce sound. Also,
