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 Ebenezer Enterprises - So far G-d has helped us. http://webEbenezer.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20160825/cec3dc33/attachment-0001.html>