Please help with mplayer problem

[Alexander Raab]

Bob Marcan wrote:

> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>
>> Robin Laing wrote:
>>
>>> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have done some searching via google on the issue, however most of 
>>>> the results aren't in english, strangely. Anyways. I'd setup FC3 
>>>> for a friend of mine. And I had connected to the machine via ssh 
>>>> (from my home). Well I was having a little fun. I was playing a few 
>>>> songs on the remote machine using mplayer. Suddenly mplayer gave 
>>>> the following message:
>>>>
>>>> [AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Device or 
>>>> resource busy
>>>>
>>>> It's given the message ever since and does not play files remotely 
>>>> (not sure about locally) with mplayer at least. What can I do to 
>>>> troubleshoot this? Any ideas.  My friend has also reported that 
>>>> songs take forver (a long wait) to play music now. She uses 
>>>> KPlayer, which uses mplayer.
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas?
>>>> Thank you.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Is there an old process of mplayer still running.  I have had that 
>>> occur in the past.  I have had to manually kill the pid
>>>
>>> Check what is running.
>>>
>>> I have also had problems with esd not releasing properly.
>>
>>
>>
>> Nice idea.. But that didn't work. No runing pricesses. Plus the 
>> machien has been shut down and booted severtal times. It apperently 
>> is also playing some KDE alert sound after every song.
>>
>
> Try
> rm ~/.gmplayer/gui.*
>
> Regards, Bob
>
Hi,
I had to deactivate the alert sound of KDE
bye
Alex