[Alsaplayer-devel] daemon interface not working

[Jan Willies]

Dominique Michel schrieb:
> Le Fri, 02 Mar 2007 00:08:07 +0100,
> Jan Willies <jan at willies.info> a écrit :
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have trouble to get the daemon interface to work. It plays well with 
>> text interface though. I tried both, 0.99.77 and svn. Here's the output 
>> (although not very helpful?):
> 
> You cannot load directly a file when you start the daemon. 
> First, you start the daemon.
> After, you issue commands to the daemon in order to control it.
> 
> A non documented feature of the the daemon interface is at you have to use the
> -s <name> parameter when starting it, otherwise one threads get zombified at the
> end of each song.
> 
> 1)
> alsaplayer --verbose -i daemon -s somename
> 
> 2)
> alsaplayer -e some.mp3

Thanks for your reply Dominique! I got it working now. The real problem
was my media-software (http://mms.sunsite.dk/) muted the volume, so
after a alsaplayer --volume 1.0 everything was great.

Finally smooth playback! That wasn't possible with libxine, it sucked
when system was under load.


ciao
jan