[solved] mplayer and m3u files

I'm trying to stream music from netjuke through mplayer. Netjuke creates .m3u files but when I tell mplayer to play the file I get the following error:
Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: avisynth.dll, /usr/lib/win32/avisynth.dll, /usr/local/lib/win32/avisynth.dll
I have the codecs package installed and there are a lot of codecs in /usr/lib/win32 but no avisynth.
How can I fix this?
Last edited by dninja (2007-04-11 12:41:58)

That fixed it but I also need to add
-prefer-ipv4
to stop an ipv6 lookup issue

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[SOLVED]mplayer and urxvt problems after update

Hello to all fellow archers!
Couple of days back, I updated xorg-server, like most of the people around here, so I asume that issues I`m going to describe, could be related to xorg-server being recently updated.
First issue is related to mplayer not playing movies in fullscreen format, despite being told to do so. The image size of a video is about 20% of screen resolution size, while the rest of the screen is just black.
MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.3.2 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor (Family: 6, Model: 6, Stepping: 2)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
115 audio & 237 video codecs
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mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.
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AVI file format detected.
[aviheader] Video stream found, -vid 0
[aviheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1
VIDEO: [DX50] 664x280 12bpp 23.976 fps 741.7 kbps (90.5 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
Software: VirtualDubMod 1.5.10.1 (build 2366/release)
SUB: Detected subtitle file format: microdvd
SUB: Read 1877 subtitles.
SUB: Added subtitle file (1): ./Death.Proof[2007][Unrated.Editon]DvDrip[Eng]-aXXo.srt
[VO_XV] It seems there is no Xvideo support for your video card available.
[VO_XV] Run 'xvinfo' to verify its Xv support and read
[VO_XV] DOCS/HTML/en/video.html#xv!
[VO_XV] See 'mplayer -vo help' for other (non-xv) video out drivers.
[VO_XV] Try -vo x11.
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffodivx] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-4)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 112.0 kbit/7.29% (ratio: 14000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
==========================================================================
AO: [oss] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 664 x 280 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 2.37:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [x11] 664x280 => 664x280 Planar YV12
[swscaler @ 0x89d5f50]SwScaler: using unscaled yuv420p -> rgb32 special converter
A: 67.6 V: 67.6 A-V: -0.001 ct: 0.114 1621/1621 7% 12% 1.0% 0 0
Exiting... (Quit)
I tried switching between many different video out drivers, the only one that plays video normaly is x11, but the image size is very small.
I`m using vesa driver and my video card is
lspci | grep VGA
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xorg.conf http://pastebin.com/f314eaaed
Xorg.0.log http://pastebin.com/f570dbcf5
I found a partial solution to mplayer problem in this tread http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=60054 where patroclo7 stated, that from this update on, X is using autodetection and doesn`t need xorg.conf anymore.
Anyways I followed the advice deleted my xorg.conf and rebooted arch without xorg.conf. Everything works, even the video in mplayer is running at normal size, however the default screen resolution is a bit to high.
I would like to set it to 1024x768 (monitor, philips 107E5) but don`t have a clue how to change screen resolution without xorg.conf being present. I`m using openbox as a standalone wm.
I still have a backup of my working xorg.conf file, so I can switch between xorg.conf and the other config.
Just for the record, video files are displayed properly using vlc as media player on both described configurations.
To sum everything up, how to set screen resolution at 1024x 768 without xorg.conf being present or how to fix mplayer displaying movies in a very small screen/box, despite running in fullscreen mode (using xorg.conf).
My second problem is regarding urxvt and its borderless. If I set it to true urxvt hangs on start everytime. The terminal is displayed in top left corner of the screen but it`s frozen and can`t be used, while being set to false works like a charm.
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URxvt.transparent: true
URxvt.inheritPixmap: true
URxvt.imLocale: en_US.utf8
URxvt.scrollBar: false
URxvt.saveLines: 5000
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URxvt.cursorBlink: true
URxvt.fading: 15%
URxvt.shading: 50
!URxvt*background: [80]#ece9e2
!URxvt.foreground: [80]#3d352a
urxvt.depth: 24
urxvt*background: rgba:0000/0000/0000/aaaa
urxvt*foreground: rgba:ffff/ffff/ffff/aaaa
URxvt.tintColor: #d9d7d1
URxvt.borderLess: false
!URxvt.InternalBorder: .5
URxvt.externalBorder: .5
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*foreground: rgba:0000/0000/0000/dddd
*background: rgb:10/10/10
!black
*color0: rgb:20/20/20
*color8: rgb:75/77/73
!red
*color1: rgb:cc/00/00
*color9: rgb:ef/29/29
!green
*color2: rgb:4e/9a/06
*color10: rgb:8a/e2/34
!brown/yellow
*color3: rgb:c4/a0/00
*color11: rgb:fc/e9/4f
!blue
*color4: rgb:34/65/a4
*color12: rgb:72/9f/cf
!magenta
*color5: rgb:75/50/7b
*color13: rgb:ad/7f/a8
!cyan
*color6: rgb:06/98/9a
*color14: rgb:34/e2/e2
!white
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*color15: rgb:ee/ee/ec
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stjerm.opacity: 50
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stjerm.color1: #cc0000
stjerm.color2: #4e9a06
stjerm.color3: #c4a000
stjerm.color4: #3465a4
stjerm.color5: #75507b
stjerm.color6: #06989a
stjerm.color7: #d3d7cf
stjerm.color8: #757773
stjerm.color9: #ef2929
stjerm.color10: #8ae234
stjerm.color11: #fc394f
stjerm.color12: #729fcf
stjerm.color13: #ad7fa8
stjerm.color14: #34e2e2
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Any advice is highly appreciated.
Regards,
bandito
Last edited by bandito (2008-12-05 21:35:11)

The solution for mplayer using xorg.conf file as follows:
To get fullscreen video working just add
zoom = yes
to /.mplayer/config
In case if you are using gui for mplayer and get the following error trying to play a video file
Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device
Open /.mplayer/gui.conf and change vo_driver from "xv" to "x11".
Urxvt solution is described here http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=457421 but also check this for explanation http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.wi … enbox/3947
regards
Bandito
Last edited by bandito (2008-12-05 21:34:31)

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>>
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>
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Section "ServerLayout"
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InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
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Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/local"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/artwiz-fonts/"
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Section "Module"
Load "xtrap"
Load "dbe"
Load "GLcore"
Load "extmod"
Load "record"
Load "dri"
Load "glx"
#Load "freetype"
#Load "type1"
#Load "v4l"
#Load "drm"
#Load "type1"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
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Section "InputDevice"
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Section "Monitor"
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ModelName "BenQ FP91G+"
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VertRefresh 43.0 - 76.0
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Section "Device"
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### Values: : integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
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### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "HWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "PciRetry" # [<bool>]
#Option "SyncOnGreen" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>]
#Option "Overlay" # [<str>]
#Option "MGASDRAM" # [<bool>]
#Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>]
#Option "UseFBDev" # [<bool>]
#Option "ColorKey" # 
#Option "SetMclk" # <freq>
#Option "OverclockMem" # [<bool>]
#Option "VideoKey" # 
#Option "TexturedVideo" # [<bool>]
#Option "Int10" # [<bool>]
#Option "AGPMode" # 
#Option "AGPSize" # 
#Option "DRI" # [<bool>]
#Option "OldDmaInit" # [<bool>]
#Option "ForcePciDma" # [<bool>]
#Option "AccelMethod" # [<str>]
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "mga"
VendorName "Matrox Graphics, Inc."
BoardName "MGA G550 AGP"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "HwCursor" "off" #protoze jinak tam neni
Option "DRI" "on"
Option "ShadowFB" "on" #jo ale pomalejsi 3D
#Option "OldDMAInit" "on"
Option "AGPMode" "4"
#Option "TexturedVideo" "on" #nefunguje
Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Group "video"
Mode 0666
EndSection
Section "Modes"
Identifier "Modes[0]"
Modeline "640x480" 25.20 640 656 752 800 480 490 492 525 -hsync
-vsync
ModeLine "1280x1024" 108.00 1280 1328 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 16
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
EndSubSection
EndSection
I use 16bpp because 24bpp is slower...
thank you in advance,
Daniel
Last edited by danielsoft (2008-03-04 16:21:17)

the solution was to downgrade the x server and matrox drivers
(I found the old packages at http://mir2.archlinuxfr.org/archlinux/c … i686.old/)
the following packages were downgraded:
xf86-input-keyboard-1.1.1-1.pkg.tar.gz
xf86-input-mouse-1.2.1-1.pkg.tar.gz
xf86-video-mga-1.4.6.1-1.pkg.tar.gz
xorg-server-1.2.0-5.pkg.tar.gz
xorg-xkb-utils-1.0.2-2.pkg.tar.gz

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Jarle

Hi
I'm generally ignorant in the way of those computer thingies, but seeing as no one else has responded, I'll venture my poorly informed opinion.
It seems to me that what you're asking for can't be done (as yet). What you would need is an "iTunes plug-in" effectively, which I don't think exists.
The only way you could set iTunes as the default for playing m3u is to leave the web/browser context (i.e. by downloading the m3u file) and then opening it with iTunes, which you already know how to do.

[SOLVED] Rhythmbox won't play FLAC, wma and m4a files

The errors it gives:
For m4a:
Additional GStreamer plugins are required to play this file: MPEG-4 AAC decoder
For FLAC:
The MIME type of this file could not be identified
For wma:
Additional GStreamer plugins are required to play this file: Windows Media Audio 8 decoder
My gstreamer packages installed:
$yaourt -Qs gstreamer
==> Query installed packages
extra/gstreamer0.10-bad 0.10.19-1 (gstreamer0.10-plugins)
GStreamer Multimedia Framework Bad Plugin libraries (gst-plugins-bad)
local/gstreamer0.10-base-git 20100721-1 (gstreamer)
GStreamer Multimedia Framework Base plugin libraries
local/gstreamer0.10-git 20100721-1 (gstreamer)
GStreamer Multimedia Framework
extra/gstreamer0.10-good 0.10.23-1
GStreamer Multimedia Framework Good plugin libraries
extra/gstreamer0.10-good-plugins 0.10.23-1 (gstreamer0.10-plugins)
GStreamer Multimedia Framework Good Plugins (gst-plugins-good)
extra/gstreamer0.10-python 0.10.18-1
Python bindings for GStreamer 0.10
local/gstreamer0.10-ugly-git 20100721-1 (gstreamer)
GStreamer Multimedia Framework Ugly plugins
extra/totem 2.30.2-1 (gnome-extra)
A GNOME2 integrated movie player based on Gstreamer.
Thanks, kradle
UPDATE:
After installing gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg wma files and FLAC files seem to play fine (but I think the FLAC files I tried to play before were just damaged and that this is irrelevant)
Only m4a does not work now
UPDATE:
m4a after installing gstreamer0.10-bad-plugins.
At first I did not manage to do this because I had ffmpeg-svn installed, so I installed ffmpeg and removed ffmpeg-svn, installed libvpx and removed libvpx-git and not it works perfectly.
Last edited by kradle (2010-07-22 03:29:27)

Obi-Lan wrote:Are you in audio group?
yup. I ran
gpasswd -a karam audio
before running rhythmbox. Actually this seems to be a gstreamer issue as my audio works in most software but i have no playback in rhythmbox or quod libet. well i am going to switch to mpd/sonata and see if i can get that to work. i was never a big fan of rhythmbox anyway as it has no id3 tag editing support.

WhAT IS NEEDED TO PLAY M3U FILES?

What is needed to plAY M3U AUDIO FILES?

Hi,
"A .m3u file is a playlist file - it does not contain any actual media. It simply serves as a pointer to several different media files. In order to open a .m3u file, all the media files that it points to must be in the location the file points to. Without having the actual file, it would not be possible to tell you which files need to be where. Assuming the media files being pointed to are in the correct location, media players such as Windows Media Player, Winamp and VLC Media Player should all be able to play them, assuming the file types of each file are supported by that player."
Source: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_you_can_play_m3u_file
Because it is a list, you need actual audio files in there to be able to play. For example, the list contains 5 files 1.mp3, 2.mp3, 3.mp3, 4.mp3 and 5.mp3. You need all five mp3 files to be able to play. You can open using VLC and you can download VLC from the following link:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html
Regards.
BH
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How to open and save file like the Notepad Demo do?

I am a newer to Java Web Start. I found that in the Notepad Demo, when user try to open or save file, a message box appear and give the user some security suggestions.
In my application, I used a JFileChooser and set the <security> element to <j2ee-application-client-permissions/> in the jnlp file. But the application will thow an exception:
access denied (java.io.FilePermission C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\desktop\Java Web Start.lnk read)
Can someone tell me how to solve this problem. By the way, where can I find the source of the Notepad Demo. I want my application to open and save file just like the Notepad Demo do.

The Notpad demo uses the JNLP api to read and write files. The api doc can be found at:
http://java.sun.com/products/javawebstart/docs/javadoc/index.html
Although the Notpad demo source is not available, there is other sample code available at:
http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/releases/javawebstart/
Included here is the webpad demo, which uses the FileOpenService and
FileSaveService API's.

[SOLVED] Mpd and sonata doesn't seem to work

Hi guys!
I 'm facing with an issue . I can't seem to configure mpd correctly to run it with sonata .
I've followed the alternative setup from archwiki and this is my config file .
# An example configuration file for MPD
# See the mpd.conf man page for a more detailed description of each parameter.
# Files and directories #######################################################
# This setting controls the top directory which MPD will search to discover the
# available audio files and add them to the daemon's online database. This
# setting defaults to the XDG directory, otherwise the music directory will be
# be disabled and audio files will only be accepted over ipc socket (using
# file:// protocol) or streaming files over an accepted protocol.
music_directory "/home/andreas/Downloads/Torrents"
# This setting sets the MPD internal playlist directory. The purpose of this
# directory is storage for playlists created by MPD. The server will use
# playlist files not created by the server but only if they are in the MPD
# format. This setting defaults to playlist saving being disabled.
playlist_directory "/home/andreas/.mpd/playlists"
# This setting sets the location of the MPD database. This file is used to
# load the database at server start up and store the database while the
# server is not up. This setting defaults to disabled which will allow
# MPD to accept files over ipc socket (using file:// protocol) or streaming
# files over an accepted protocol.
db_file "/home/andreas/.mpd/mpd.db"
# These settings are the locations for the daemon log files for the daemon.
# These logs are great for troubleshooting, depending on your log_level
# settings.
# The special value "syslog" makes MPD use the local syslog daemon. This
# setting defaults to logging to syslog, otherwise logging is disabled.
log_file "/home/andreas/.mpd/mpd.log"
# This setting sets the location of the file which stores the process ID
# for use of mpd --kill and some init scripts. This setting is disabled by
# default and the pid file will not be stored.
pid_file "/home/andreas/.mpd/mpd.pid"
# This setting sets the location of the file which contains information about
# most variables to get MPD back into the same general shape it was in before
# it was brought down. This setting is disabled by default and the server
# state will be reset on server start up.
state_file "/home/andreas/.mpd/mpdstate"
# General music daemon options ################################################
# This setting specifies the user that MPD will run as. MPD should never run as
# root and you may use this setting to make MPD change its user ID after
# initialization. This setting is disabled by default and MPD is run as the
# current user.
user "andreas"
# This setting sets the address for the daemon to listen on. Careful attention
# should be paid if this is assigned to anything other then the default, any.
# This setting can deny access to control of the daemon.
# For network
#bind_to_address "any"
# And for Unix Socket
#bind_to_address "~/.mpd/socket"
# This setting is the TCP port that is desired for the daemon to get assigned
# to.
#port "6600"
# This setting controls the type of information which is logged. Available
# setting arguments are "default", "secure" or "verbose". The "verbose" setting
# argument is recommended for troubleshooting, though can quickly stretch
# available resources on limited hardware storage.
#log_level "default"
# If you have a problem with your MP3s ending abruptly it is recommended that
# you set this argument to "no" to attempt to fix the problem. If this solves
# the problem, it is highly recommended to fix the MP3 files with vbrfix
# (available from <http://www.willwap.co.uk/Programs/vbrfix.php>), at which
# point gapless MP3 playback can be enabled.
#gapless_mp3_playback "yes"
# This setting enables MPD to create playlists in a format usable by other
# music players.
#save_absolute_paths_in_playlists "no"
# This setting defines a list of tag types that will be extracted during the
# audio file discovery process. Optionally, 'comment' can be added to this
# list.
#metadata_to_use "artist,album,title,track,name,genre,date,composer,performer,disc"
# Symbolic link behavior ######################################################
# If this setting is set to "yes", MPD will discover audio files by following
# symbolic links outside of the configured music_directory.
#follow_outside_symlinks "yes"
# If this setting is set to "yes", MPD will discover audio files by following
# symbolic links inside of the configured music_directory.
#follow_inside_symlinks "yes"
# Zeroconf / Avahi Service Discovery ##########################################
# If this setting is set to "yes", service information will be published with
# Zeroconf / Avahi.
#zeroconf_enabled "yes"
# The argument to this setting will be the Zeroconf / Avahi unique name for
# this MPD server on the network.
#zeroconf_name "Music Player"
# Permissions #################################################################
# If this setting is set, MPD will require password authorization. The password
# can setting can be specified multiple times for different password profiles.
#password "password@read,add,control,admin"
# This setting specifies the permissions a user has who has not yet logged in.
#default_permissions "read,add,control,admin"
# Input #######################################################################
input {
plugin "curl"
# proxy "proxy.isp.com:8080"
# proxy_user "user"
# proxy_password "password"
# Audio Output ################################################################
# MPD supports various audio output types, as well as playing through multiple
# audio outputs at the same time, through multiple audio_output settings
# blocks. Setting this block is optional, though the server will only attempt
# autodetection for one sound card.
# See <http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Configuration#Audio_Outputs> for examples of
# other audio outputs.
# An example of an ALSA output:
#audio_output {
# type "alsa"
# name "My ALSA Device"
## device "hw:0,0" # optional
## format "44100:16:2" # optional
## mixer_device "default" # optional
## mixer_control "PCM" # optional
## mixer_index "0" # optional
# An example of an OSS output:
#audio_output {
# type "oss"
# name "My OSS Device"
## device "/dev/dsp" # optional
## format "44100:16:2" # optional
## mixer_device "/dev/mixer" # optional
## mixer_control "PCM" # optional
# An example of a shout output (for streaming to Icecast):
#audio_output {
# type "shout"
# encoding "ogg" # optional
# name "My Shout Stream"
# host "localhost"
# port "8000"
# mount "/mpd.ogg"
# password "hackme"
# quality "5.0"
# bitrate "128"
# format "44100:16:1"
## protocol "icecast2" # optional
## user "source" # optional
## description "My Stream Description" # optional
## genre "jazz" # optional
## public "no" # optional
## timeout "2" # optional
# An example of a httpd output (built-in HTTP streaming server):
#audio_output {
# type "httpd"
# name "My HTTP Stream"
# encoder "vorbis" # optional, vorbis or lame
# port "8000"
## quality "5.0" # do not define if bitrate is defined
# bitrate "128" # do not define if quality is defined
# format "44100:16:1"
# An example of a pulseaudio output (streaming to a remote pulseaudio server)
#audio_output {
# type "pulse"
# name "My Pulse Output"
## server "remote_server" # optional
## sink "remote_server_sink" # optional
## Example "pipe" output:
#audio_output {
# type "pipe"
# name "my pipe"
# command "aplay -f cd 2>/dev/null"
## Or if you're want to use AudioCompress
# command "AudioCompress -m | aplay -f cd 2>/dev/null"
## Or to send raw PCM stream through PCM:
# command "nc example.org 8765"
# format "44100:16:2"
## An example of a null output (for no audio output):
#audio_output {
# type "null"
# name "My Null Output"
# This setting will change all decoded audio to be converted to the specified
# format before being passed to the audio outputs. By default, this setting is
# disabled.
#audio_output_format "44100:16:2"
# If MPD has been compiled with libsamplerate support, this setting specifies
# the sample rate converter to use. Possible values can be found in the
# mpd.conf man page or the libsamplerate documentation. By default, this is
# setting is disabled.
#samplerate_converter "Fastest Sinc Interpolator"
# Volume control mixer ########################################################
# These are the global volume control settings. By default, this setting will
# be detected to the available audio output device, with preference going to
# hardware mixing. Hardware and software mixers for individual audio_output
# sections cannot yet be mixed.
# An example for controlling an ALSA, OSS or Pulseaudio mixer; If this
# setting is used other sound applications will be affected by the volume
# being controlled by MPD.
#mixer_type "hardware"
# An example for controlling all mixers through software. This will control
# all controls, even if the mixer is not supported by the device and will not
# affect any other sound producing applications.
#mixer_type "software"
# This example will not allow MPD to touch the mixer at all and will disable
# all volume controls.
#mixer_type "disabled"
# Normalization automatic volume adjustments ##################################
# This setting specifies the type of ReplayGain to use. This setting can have
# the argument "album" or "track". See <http://www.replaygain.org> for more
# details. This setting is disabled by default.
#replaygain "album"
# This setting sets the pre-amp used for files that have ReplayGain tags. By
# default this setting is disabled.
#replaygain_preamp "0"
# This setting enables on-the-fly normalization volume adjustment. This will
# result in the volume of all playing audio to be adjusted so the output has
# equal "loudness". This setting is disabled by default.
#volume_normalization "no"
# MPD Internal Buffering ######################################################
# This setting adjusts the size of internal decoded audio buffering. Changing
# this may have undesired effects. Don't change this if you don't know what you
# are doing.
#audio_buffer_size "2048"
# This setting controls the percentage of the buffer which is filled before
# beginning to play. Increasing this reduces the chance of audio file skipping,
# at the cost of increased time prior to audio playback.
#buffer_before_play "10%"
# Resource Limitations ########################################################
# These settings are various limitations to prevent MPD from using too many
# resources. Generally, these settings should be minimized to prevent security
# risks, depending on the operating resources.
#connection_timeout "60"
#max_connections "10"
#max_playlist_length "16384"
#max_command_list_size "2048"
#max_output_buffer_size "8192"
# Character Encoding ##########################################################
# If file or directory names do not display correctly for your locale then you
# may need to modify this setting. After modification of this setting mpd
# --create-db must be run to change the database.
#filesystem_charset "UTF-8"
# This setting controls the encoding that ID3v1 tags should be converted from.
#id3v1_encoding "ISO-8859-1"
All the files required are in my /home/andreas/.mpd/ directory
config
mpd.db
mpd.error
mpd.log
mpd.pid
mpdstate
playlists
I've also added to my .xinitrc file
mpd /home/andreas/.mpd/config
I 'm sure i've done something wrong but don't know what it is . If anyone could help me out i would be grateful
THanks a for all your help!
Last edited by shak (2010-04-19 23:08:09)

shak wrote:
I've followed the first method with the mpd daemon and everything worked fine .
THanks for all your help everyone !
The add of MPD : ALL to hosts.allow seems to solved it .
Thanks again!
Nice.
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