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

[Jan Knutar]

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