Please help with mplayer problem
Robin Laing
Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Thu Feb 17 15:42:02 UTC 2005
Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> I have done some searching via google on the issue, however most of the
> results aren't in english, strangely. Anyways. I'd setup FC3 for a
> friend of mine. And I had connected to the machine via ssh (from my
> home). Well I was having a little fun. I was playing a few songs on the
> remote machine using mplayer. Suddenly mplayer gave the following message:
>
> [AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Device or
> resource busy
>
> It's given the message ever since and does not play files remotely (not
> sure about locally) with mplayer at least. What can I do to troubleshoot
> this? Any ideas. My friend has also reported that songs take forver (a
> long wait) to play music now. She uses KPlayer, which uses mplayer.
>
> Any ideas?
> Thank you.
>
Is there an old process of mplayer still running. I have had that
occur in the past. I have had to manually kill the pid
Check what is running.
I have also had problems with esd not releasing properly.
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Robin Laing
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