Hello, the current mplayer ebuild (mplayer-0.90_pre2-r1) does not compile support for OSS sound driver ... I had to do it manually to get sound working... That's all great work :)
do you have "oss" in your USE settings?
nosferatu cf # mplayer -ao help MPlayer 0.90pre3-2.95.3 (C) 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS!) CPU vendor name: GenuineIntel max cpuid level: 2 CPU: Intel (Type: 8, Stepping: 4) extended cpuid-level: 4 Testing OS support for SSE... yes. Testing OS support for SSE unmasked exceptions... yes. Tests of OS support for SSE passed. CPUflags: Type: 8 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 Compiled for x86 CPU with features: MMX MMX2 SSE Available audio output drivers: oss OSS/ioctl audio output null Null audio output sdl SDLlib audio output mpegpes Mpeg-PES audio output pcm RAW PCM/WAVE file writer audio output plugin Plugin audio output nosferatu cf # Like Seemant said, you must have "oss" in your USE.
Guess it is ok to close this one, as we havent had feedback yet.