[Cialug] [tclug-list] Wireless trouble and Ben Shapiro

[Brian Wood]

Iznogoud writes:

>> And, I'm having trouble getting Ben Shapiro podcasts to play
>> on this machine.   (I'm using an ethernet connection while the
>>wireless is down,)
>>
>> I'm able for example, to watch bsdnow.tv podcasts without a
>> problem.  But I'm not getting any sound when I try to listen to
>> to this.
>>
>> http://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/8606/ben-shapiro-
show-ep-170-hillary-clinton-opens-ben-shapiro
>>
>> I'v tried two ways to get it to work.
>> 1. Clicking on the links..
>> 2. Downloading an mp3 file.
>>
>> When I downloaded the mp3, it said it needed to install
>> gstreamer.  So I let it do that, but that didn't seem to help.
>> I've tried both of the above things several times,  but I haven't
>> tried rebooting.
>>
>
> As an FYI, "MPlayer" is the _best_ player for both archived (on your
drive)
> and streaming media. You want that, and you can easily build it from
source.
> It has "skins" and GUIs that go with it for people who do not like the
CLI.
>
> But your core problem is in ALSA, the Advanced Linux Sounds System,
> configuration. In a terminal hit "alsamixer' and see the graphical
sliders.
> Move left right with the cursor keys and keep hitting "M" to mute and
unmute
> channels. The issue, I think, is that one way of palying the stream uses a
> PCM ALSA device and another something else. The one that plays is not
> muted
> and the other one is. It can also be the "jack sense" that needs to be
muted.
> That is just the sensor that tries to figure out if you have plugged in
the
> jack for headphones or not.
>
> Looks like you need to do some reading on that as well. Report back.

I got it working with MPlayer.  Before trying mplayer, I tried alsamixer,
but wasn't able to figure out how to fix things with that.

-- 
Brian
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