Hello. Sometimes I've had an annoying problem when using mplayer (currently using 1.0pre3-3.3.3) in sid. The basic problem is that I eventually lose the sound while watching streaming video. Killing mplayer, and trying to unload/load sound modules with modconf does not work, since 'device or resorce busy', and I don't know what is the problem, since mplayer is the only program trying to use sound. My only solution is to reboot. Is there a cleaner way?
A typical situation in which this happens is after succesfully watching streaming video for over an hour (like yesterday!), data download gets slower. That could be a server problem (I started watching at about 7pm, Chilean time, and then problems appeared at about 9pm, when probably more people was connecting to the server). Since the video stopped, I killed mplayer, restarted it, but then I could not get sound. I usually have to kill and restart mplayer, and I don't have this problem. So the thing is, rather than trying to identify the cause of the sound problem, I'd like to recover sound without rebooting. Regards, Victor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]