[MPlayer-users] option to avoid "Audio: no sound"?

[Frederik Eaton]

> > I'm in no way  an expert but I'm pretty certain that that should not 
> > happen on any modern  Linux based OS.
> > The only sane explanation would be that you are running some  very old 
> > software that is directly accessing and hogging /dev/dsp all for  itself.
> > Hence what software are you  running?
> 
> personaly, I had many problems with the flash plugin holding on /dev/dsp...
> Killing it would solve the issue... until next time...
> 
> JD

I've noticed that about the flash plugin, but that's another subject... It 
doesn't matter what my audio setup is. I could have specified my USB sound card 
dongle: -ao oss:/dev/dsp1. If mplayer can't use that device, then I don't want 
it to bring up the video and play video without sound - I want mplayer to quit 
immediately so that I can debug the audio problem. I guess there is no option to 
enable such behaviour in mplayer? 

Best wishes,

Frederik