[MPlayer-users] CVS, DivX, and No sound! Broken Pipe?

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 07:45:32PM -0400, Aciel wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> The majority of the times I run mplayer, and especially with a dvd, I
> get the following error.
> 
> AO: [oss] 44100Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian)
> audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy
> couldn't open/init audio device -> NOSOUND
> Audio: no sound!!!
> Start playing...
> 
> There's no obvious reason for me to get this. Everything else that uses
> sound works just fine. Usually I can get it to work by opening XMMS,
> starting to play something, and then closing it. But often that doesn't
> even work and I have to play around with it for a while, opening and
> closing various sound-utilizing applications. This is obnoxious. How can
> I fix it?

killall -9 esd esound artsd (or whatever they're called)

Or better yet, find the right config screen in GNOME/KDE/whatever
you're using and disable the sound daemon.

> I've tried enabling these at compile time but it doesn't seem to work.
> When I try to do it with libavcodec I get an error--no target or
> somesuch. I also tried downloading ffmpeg and ./configure && make &&
> make install. It compiled and installed fine but mplayer couldn't see
> it.

RTFM README. It tells the correct way to compile with libavcodec.

Rich