[MPlayer-users] Playing Win Media Player stream....

[Raphael Clifford]

Erik Slagter wrote:

>[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
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>>the user you are using to play the stream ist not allowed to write to the
>>sound device.
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>>>audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Permission denied
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>>try to play the stream with user root and you will see if it is a mplayer
>>bug.
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>Never do that.
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>I'd suggest "ls -l /dev/dsp" and if necessary "chmod a+rw /dev/dsp" as
>root.
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Is there a reason why no-one has suggested "fuser /dev/dsp" to find out 
what else might be hogging the resource? I find that the java_vm will 
hold onto /dev/dsp forever, for example, unless I kill it :)
Cheers,
Raphael