[MPlayer-users] no sound, no access to /dev/dsp

[Malte Gell]

Jan Knutar <jknutar at nic.fi> wrote

> On Monday 13 July 2009, Malte Gell wrote:
> > Malte Gell <malte.gell at gmx.de> wrote
> >
> > > mplayer Deadmau5_NotExactly.flv
> > >
> > > [AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Device or
> > > resource busy
> > > Failed to initialize audio driver 'oss'
> > > Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound.
> > > Audio: no sound
> >
> > Ha! mplayer -ao alsa foo.flv does the job!

> put this in your ~/.mplayer/config and you wont have to type it:
>
> ao=alsa

Yep, i did now.