[MPlayer-users] sblive and ac3

[Diego Biurrun]

On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 06:54:46PM +0200, Per Wigren wrote:
> Monday 01 July 2002 18.47 skrev Ashendra Singh:
> > mplayer: pcm.c:786: snd_pcm_status: Assertion `pcm && status' failed.
> 
> That happens for me too when I use -ao alsa9..
> It happens when another program uses sound at the same time, for example when 
> artsd is running. 

Have you tried -ao arts (or artsd).  I just know it was implemented some
time ago, I do not use KDE, so YMMV.

Diego