From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041012 Firefox/0.10.1 Description of problem: Rawhide 2004-10-15 aplay and gstreamer fail with a) ALSA output device set to hw:0 b) ALSA output when using OSS or ALSA input See GStreamer for bug details. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155575 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. gst-launch-0.8 sinesrc ! alsasink device=hw:0 2. aplay -D hw:0,0 /usr/share/sounds/info.wav 3. gst-launch-0.8 osssrc device=/dev/dsp1 ! alsasink device=plughw:0,0 4. gst-launch-0.8 alsasrc device=plughw:1,0 ! alsasink device=plughw:0,0 Actual Results: Depending on the command used. #1,#2 Consistently return error message #3,#4 Just output silence Expected Results: With Gstreamer alsasrc or osssrc works OK if the sink is osssink > gst-launch-0.8 alsasrc device=hw:1,0 ! osssink device=/dev/dsp > gst-launch-0.8 alsasrc device=hw:1,0 ! osssink device=/dev/dsp1 > gst-launch-0.8 alsasrc device=plughw:1,0 ! osssink device=/dev/dsp > gst-launch-0.8 alsasrc device=plughw:1,0 ! osssink device=/dev/dsp1 > gst-launch-0.8 osssrc device=/dev/dsp1 ! osssink device=/dev/dsp > gst-launch-0.8 osssrc device=/dev/dsp1 ! osssink device=/dev/dsp1 Additional info: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155575
Is plughw:1,0 input device? You don't have to use hw:0 directly, it is hardware of your sound card and it probably don't support many wave-formats directly.