MPlayer and the dreaded alsa-control error

scion · 05-04-2006, 02:45 PM

Hello

I can play videos in totem and vlc player perfectly fine but in MPlayer there seems to be an alsa-control problem and i get an error window opening and closing constantly when the video is playing.

Error message:

alsa-control: unable to find simple control 'PCM',0

Can anyone give me advice on how to fix this problem as it is "wreaking my head"...

Thanks.

bosewicht · 05-04-2006, 02:54 PM

try enabling the software mixer under preferences/audio. there were some posts on a suse board that claimed that fixed it. You still get sound in mplayer though right?

scion · 05-04-2006, 06:14 PM

Yes but the sound quality is very bad in MPlayer, but perfect in vlc, amarok etc...
i will try that later when i get home.
Thanks for the reply.

Electro · 05-04-2006, 07:19 PM

Just use mplayer from the command line. Do not use its GUI version.