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