Hoary - media players - various issues

[M Galvin]

On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 14:47 -0600, Santiago Erquicia wrote:
>On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 15:38 -0500, M Galvin wrote:
>>It seems that none of the media player can play anything when i run them
>>from the Application menu. When running xmms from the App menu it just
>>hangs all the time. If I run xmms from the command line it "usually"
>>works, but not always.
>>
>>When running totem I get the following error:
>>
>>	Totem could not play file:///.../lugradio-s289....ogg
>>	Could not open resource for writing
>>
>>And i get the same: "Could not open resource for writing" when trying to
>>use rhythmbox
>>
>>So i can effectively not play any music or listen to lug interview
>>Mark :(.
>>
>>
>>Although I did manually build MPlayer (latest from CVS) (into /usr/local
>>to keep hoary clean) and that is working ok to play dvd's and such
>>although that's not mixing the sound, but that's a separate problem.
>>
>>I am running a fresh Hoary Array-5 on a P4 with AC'97 audio. Is anybody
>>having these issues?
>>
>>Matt
>>
>>
>
>See this bug http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6696
>
>Try this in the console:
>polypaudio -k
>polypaudio -nF /etc/polypaudio/default.pa
>
>After that it should work
>
>Santiago
>
>
>

Sweet that worked! :)! Thanks Santiago!

Matt