[MPlayer-users] 2nd instance of mplayer at the console hangs

[wt at teksavvy.com]

I downloaded the latest mplayer sources from the svn repository on
Nov21,2008. Compiled it and installed it according to the instructions
in the readme file.

I'm currently using openSuse  11.

I noticed that if I were to run mplayer on the console for and audio
file. It'll play. But if I were to open another console and run mplayer
for another audio file, this one just hangs with the output screen shown
below.  I should note that I can stop the process by using Ctl-C.

I noticed the message from the mplayer output. "...Can't open audio
device /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy.."  This would indicate that
/dev/dsp is used by the first instance of mplayer in the previous console.

I posed a short while back regarding a similar issue. I guess something
has changed since the last time I downloaded the source.  Or could it be
the development libraries that I'm using from the openSuse 11
distribution DVD or repositories.

Any insight anyone?

Thanks in advance.



$ mplayer cfra-20081120-2.wmv
MPlayer dev-SVN-r27979-4.3 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team
CPU: Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 1.80GHz (Family: 15, Model: 2,
Stepping: 7)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote
control.

Playing cfra-20081120-2.wmv.
ASF file format detected.
[asfheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1
Clip info:
 name: CFRA - (2) - LIve from CFRA
 author: CHUM Radio / iSi - Xstream Webcasting
 copyright: 2008
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 16000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 16.0 kbit/3.12% (ratio: 2000->64000)
Selected audio codec: [ffwmav2] afm: ffmpeg (DivX audio v2 (FFmpeg))
==========================================================================
[AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Device or
resource busy
AO: [alsa] 16000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
Starting playback...
A:549094.4 (152:31:34.4) of 2133437440.0 (-24.-8)  0.3%