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

[Krzysztof Duchnowski]

wt at teksavvy.com pisze:
> 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%



mkdir ~/.mplayer
echo "ao=alsa" >> ~/.mplayer/config

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