[MPlayer-users] sharing sound device

[gabor farkas]

On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 10:17:11PM -0800, Erick Calder wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> I want to be able to run mpg123 and mplayer at the same time so it was
> suggested to me that using ESD would allow me to do this.
> 
> I thus ran the ESD daemon and tried "-ao sdl:esd" but I get:
> 
> > DL: using esd audio driver
> > SDL: Unable to open audio: No available audio device
> > couldn't open/init audio device -> no sound
> > Audio: no sound!!!
> 
> I see that section 5.4 of the FAQ states:
> 
> "A: Are you running KDE or GNOME with the arts or esd sound daemon? Try
> disabling the sound daemon, or use the -ao arts switch to make MPlayer use
> arts."
> 
> since I seem to need to disable the ESD daemon then I gather it should not
> be running... I shut it down and again tried "-ao sdl:esd" with the same
> result... so I get taht error whether I'm running esd or not... wtf?
> 
> I've also tried -ao arts with same result.
> 
> if I am not running the ESD daemon and run "mplayer myfile" it works fine.

> I get audio...  what am I missing here?

your choices:

arts is running:

-ao arts

esd is running:

-ao sdl:esd

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or you can kill your esd or arts server, and use the native audio
output:

-ao oss (probably, it can be -ao alsa09 too, depends on your sound card
drivers )...

by default mplayer assumes -ao oss, so if you don't specify it on
command line or in a config file then 
"mplayer x.avi" equals to "mplayer -ao oss x.avi"

bye,
gabor



> 
> I've also done searches on Google for an answer but find zilch.
> 
> thx - erick
> 
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