[MPlayer-users] Mplayer startup error

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 03:06:10AM +1000, Marvin Pierce wrote:
> Mplayer will sometimes start and give me the error message:
> 	AO: [esd] esd_open_sound failed: Connection refused
> 
> I'm not using esd sound and wondering why I get this error.
> 
> My ~/.mplayer/config is:
> gui=yes
  ^^^^^^^

This is very bad. You should run gmplayer if you want the gui. I
expect the mplayer _gui_ config file has ao=esd in it...

Rich