[MPlayer-users] Audio driver problems in 1.0pre1

[Carl Michal]

>> Often if I use mplayer to play audio only files, it isn't able to
>> initialize my audio drivers, it complains:
>>
>> Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Resource temporarily unavailable.
>>
>> With 0.90 and 0.91, I've always been able to workaround this by using
>> mplayer to play a movie with audio and video (audio seems to always
>> work
>> with a movie), and then play audio only with no problem.  This always
>> worked.
>>
>> With 1.0pre1, I see the problem much more frequently, and now playing
>> a movie never helps,

> Try -ao sdl
>

sdl doesn't produce any sound when I'm in this state either.  -ao sdl
makes the video go really really slowly.  esd doesn't help either.

Is there any significant change in the oss start-up between 0.91 and
1.0pre1?

Carl