[MPlayer-users] mplayer can't open/init audio device -> no sound

[Zdenek Pizl]

On Wednesday 23 October 2002 17:59, gabor wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 14:38, Zdenek Pizl wrote:
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]

> > strange thing - I've tested it again yesterday evening and sometimes it
> > works, sometimes not. Hmmm, i changed nothing in configs and I cannot
> > reproduce it on demand :(
>
> try harder :-)
>
> are there other sound-applications running that time?

during the time i was playing with mplayer no other audio programs (like xmms 
etc.) were running.

I'm not quite sure what happened ... I'll test it today 

> whatabout ( i don't know if it's possible ):
> 	shutdown kde and go to the console,
>
> start artsd manually
> try to "watch" a movie without video:
> mplayer -ao arts -vo null my.avi

i'll try it.

-- 
z.p.