[MPlayer-users] Running multiple instance of mplayer

[Oliver Seitz]

> I'm currently running OpenSuse10.3 with MPlayer v1.0rc2.
>
> I cannot run mplayer on separate console windows.  for example, I open
> one console and execute mplayer for an audio file.  it works ok.  I then
> open another console and execute mplayer to play another audio file,
> this time, it seems to play based on the visual feedback from mplayer
> but there is no sound.  The console output of this failed mplayer test
> is shown below. I can notice the "Can't open audio device /dev/dsp:
> Device or resource busy".  This could be the problem:

Hi!

That's not an MPlayer problem, but a sound driver problem. OSS can
(without some tweaking) only play one set of wave channels simultaneously.
If you use alsa instead, multiple wave outputs will be mixed
automatically.

Greets,
Kiste