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> No problem with WSS. The problem is with AU. In fact, I originally was
> looking for your ancient port, but I wasn't able to find it on the internet
> (everyone was just talking about it, dead links and no binary), but I've
> found (thanks to Zyzzle) Kostylev's version on Rayer's site where the only
> documentation for it was a few lines in Czech. I don't speak the language,
> but "Nová verze 1.3.0 používá knihovnu au (parametr -ao au:volume=xx),
> která si zvukovku detekuje automaticky" was very straightforward, so I
> tried it and it works, but, though there are available docs about the
> possible arguments for -ao wss:, there is nothing else about -ao au:. I
> tried the WSS switches and also tried to reconstruct the logic of possible
> switches (if it has ':volume=nn' instead of ':vol=nn' then it might have
> ':device=nn' instead of ':dev=nn'and so), but, naturally, it didn't lead to
> any working result. If Rayer hadn't mentioned -ao au:volume=nn, I wouldn't
> even know about that one. But it's important, as WSS doesn't even work on
> my chipset. Pádár Attila's drivers and all its successors do (HX.DOS only
> uses my lineout jack though) and there is an experimental extended version
> of Judas that I tested and works (when the HW is already initialized by
> something from the Pádár-line of drivers), but only for the lineout jack,
> and TomCat's beeper-speaker initializer works perfectly. WSS doesn't.

Re: AU, perhaps it "detects the sound card automatically", as Google translates, and there is no other switch than "-ao au:volume=xx". Re: WSS, by "doesn't even work on my chipset" do you mean that it can't detect your sound card or do you mean something else?

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I looked in my archive and I have only some old mplayer sources from 2012 that use WSS, from README.WSS:

Usage:
-ao wss:dev=<devid>:vol=<volume>:latency=<latency>

Where:
<devid> is one of the following:
-1      -       Autodetect;
0       -       Eternal silence;
1       -       SB autodetection;
2       -       AC97 autodetection with initialization;
3       -       AC97 autodetection without initialization;
4       -       GUS MAX (CS4231 codec);
5       -       GUS;
6       -       Windows Sound System
7       -       Ensoniq Soundscape;
8       -       ESS Audiodrive;
9       -       WDM SBPRO emulation;
10      -       SB 2.01 interrupt driven;
11      -       SB 1.00 interrupt driven;
12      -       SB 2.01;
15      -       SBPRO;
16      -       SB16;
17      -       CMI8x38 as SB16;
21      -       Trident 4D Wave as SB16;
23      -       SBPRO interrupt driven;
24      -       VIA686 AC97 with initialization;
25      -       VIA686 AC97 without initialization;
26      -       ICH AC97 with initialization;
27      -       ICH AC97 without initialization;
28      -       High Definition Audio;
29      -       High Definition Audio with internal speaker(s) disabled.
Defaults to -1.

<volume> is a value between 0 {min) and 31 (max). Defaults to 31.

<latency> is a value between 0.0010 (min) and 0.0100 (max). Defaults to 0.025.

The source includes libwss and libao2 that contains ao_wss.c - "WSS audio output", "wss", "Khusraw", "experimental version"

I don't have MPlayer 1.3.0 sources, only binary...

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