Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS = No sound in MythTV + mplayer

[MR ZenWiz]

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 8:42 PM, Steve Malenfant <smalenfant at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I seem to have found a way to make it work. ALSA:Default doesn't work
> anymore for me in both mplayer and MythTV. I have to do a scan and choose
> the proper device that gets populated. For mplayer, I have to provide "-ao
> alsa" and it I do "-ao alsa:default" then my video doesn't even show up.
> I'll have to look into getting the ALSA:default working again. Kind of a
> pain in the bottom when you need to specify the audio device all the time.
>

Not to disparage your efforts, but that is one good use for aliases.

In particular with mplayer, I have found aliases handy for playing
specific tracks on either of my two DVD burners, using full-screen
presentations, playing those bizarre flash videos that are widescreen
but appear in 4:3 aspect ratio without the right option and suchlike.

E.g.: mp0f is much easier to type than 'mplayer --dvd-device=/dev/sr0 -fs'