[MPlayer-users] Running multiple instance of mplayer

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 09:41:03AM +0200, Attila Kinali wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Oct 2008 18:56:54 +0200 (CEST)
> "Oliver Seitz" <info at vtnd.de> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> That's not completely true. There are some oss drivers
> that can handle multiple programs accessing /dev/dsp,
> eg. the venerable emu10k.

For most drivers it actually depends on the hardware supporting multiple
outputs, in the past it was not uncommon that they supported at least 2.
Nowadays they can't afford those 10 cents extra anymore obviously...