On Wednesday 03 September 2003 02:42 pm, HaywireMac wrote: > On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 13:12:58 -0500 > > Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > From the CL, 'mplayer -ao arts <filename>' will use aRts for the > > sound output. > > AO: [arts] can't connect to aRts soundserver > Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound. > Audio: no sound > > the prob is, tho, the arts sound server is not running, do I need to be > in KDE for it to run?
I think you do. > > and once mplayer has grabbed /dev/dsp, is there no way to get it back > without rebooting? Look for an instance of gmplayer and kill it. That is if you are running a gui. I know that when I used to let mplayer take the /dev/dsp device directly, I invariably had to go out and kill a couple of gmplayer processes to get the sound back. I suspect that it had something to do with codec problems. You might also try using Xine if you continue to have problems with mplayer. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer
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