2005/6/20, david walcroft <david_walcroft at yahoo.com.au>: > Any one have an idea as to what can cause this error on starting a video > > "Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound." > when esd or alsa has taken sound device while mplayer use oss as default ao put ao=alsa in config files in $HOME/.mplayer may help -- bbbush ^_^