Mplayer Oddity

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 11:53:58AM -0400, Johann De Freitas wrote:

> My movie files are located on a FAT partition that I share between my
> distros and Win2k.
> 
> When I initially launched Mplayer I navigated to the folder where my
> movie files are located and added one file to the playlist. Mplayer
> runs fine. However when I exit Mplayer(normally) and relaunch when I
> try to run the same movie file I get an error "can't open audio
> /dev/dsp : Device or Resource Busy". Of course no audio. Once I remove
> the file from the playlist and add it again, the movie runs. I didn't
> have to logout simply removing and adding file to playlist regains
> sound.
> 
> Further if I navigate to the file and right click "open with Mplayer"
> the error "can't open audio /dev/dsp : Device or Resource Busy"
> consistently occurs. I must launch Mplayer first and navigate to movie
> file for it to play.
> 
> Suggestions to overcome this annoying behaviour?

Set the mplayer output to esd (-ao esd).

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 - mdz