[PLUG] Pointers Needed Toward Help Source

[alan]

On Mon, 15 Jan 2007, Rich Shepard wrote:

>  While I'm much closer to getting multimedia playing correctly here, I'm
> not yet there.
>
>  I've upgraded two of three systems to Slackware-11.0; one's running the
> 2.6.18.6 kernel, the other's running 2.6.19.2. On both systems, xmms plays
> audio just fine. On both systems, the firefox-1.5.0.9 media connectivity is
> installed and calls for mplayer to be used with the various video formats.
> The videos display, but silently. I've tried (g)mplayer and (g)xine; both
> display the video but no audio. This holds for the reuters.com news site and
> downloaded videos as tests.
>
>  If someone here can suggest a mail list, web site, or Usenet newsgroup
> when I might find some help, I'd appreciate the pointers.

You need the oss to alsa module installed.  Those apps tend to use OSS by 
default instead of ALSA.

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