[Alsaplayer-devel] configuration for build from source

[Dominique Michel]

Le Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:52:27 -0400,
Prof J C Nash <nashjc at ncf.ca> a écrit :

> I've found 0.99.76 (from Debian etch repository) has some buffering 
> "clicks" on my Asus Eee PC, so tried building 0.99.80 from source, as I 
> believe I read somewhere that buffering had been improved. However, the 
> build does not by default use alsa output plugin and says it cannot find 
> it. The config script actually seems to select oss.
> 
> Likely I just need to find the right place to set 'yes' to select the 
> alsa output plugin.
> 
> 
> Suggestions welcome.
> 

Hi,

If you run "alsaplayer --help", it will show you something like:
  -o,--output output    use specific output driver [default=alsa]. choices:
                        [ oss | alsa | null | nas | esound | jack ]
Only the installed output plugins will be shown. If alsa is not here, you need
to install the libasound2-dev package and reinstall AlsaPlayer from the
beginning. 

You can look at
http://packages.debian.org/source/alsaplayer?lang=en&source=1&keywords=alsaplayer
in order to see which dependencies are needed for the different parts of AP.

Be aware that some of them changed. The GTK interface need the gtk2 devel
package with AP 0.99.80. 

> JN
> 
> PS. We have been trying out the Eee as a player for folk dance music. We 
> use some pretty cheap powered speakers and it does quite well. The 
> speedup and slowdown (key T and key Q) are helpful, and alsaplayer lets 
> one of our callers who is blind run the music herself.

It is nice that you get it to work for him.

Cheers,
Dominique

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Dominique Michel

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