Re: Sound cron job delayed while VLC running

2018-06-08 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 8 Jun 2018 14:21:02 -0400 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Jun 08, 2018 at 08:13:24PM +0200, Holger Nessen wrote: > > I'am not sure which sound backend you are using. > > As far as I can remember, ALSA didn't allow multiple processes to > > output sound at the same time. > > Depends on

Re: Sound cron job delayed while VLC running

2018-06-08 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Jun 08, 2018 at 08:13:24PM +0200, Holger Nessen wrote: > I'am not sure which sound backend you are using. > As far as I can remember, ALSA didn't allow multiple processes to > output sound at the same time. Depends on the hardware. If the hardware allows mixing natively, then you can

Re: Sound cron job delayed while VLC running

2018-06-08 Thread Holger Nessen
Hi, I'am not sure which sound backend you are using. As far as I can remember, ALSA didn't allow multiple processes to output sound at the same time. With other sound backends, e. g. PulseAudio this may change. However, I don't have any clue, why this problem arises just after the upgrade.

Re: Sound cron job delayed while VLC running

2018-06-08 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 8 Jun 2018 16:33:45 +0200 (CEST) Roger Price wrote: > For nearly 20 years, I have had a cron job in which a dog (yes, it's Biff) > barks > the hours. The lines in /etc/crontab are > > 0 0,12 * * * rprice /mnt/home/rprice/bark/bark.sh 12 > ... > 0 11,23 * * * rprice

Sound cron job delayed while VLC running

2018-06-08 Thread Roger Price
For nearly 20 years, I have had a cron job in which a dog (yes, it's Biff) barks the hours. The lines in /etc/crontab are 0 0,12 * * * rprice /mnt/home/rprice/bark/bark.sh 12 ... 0 11,23 * * * rprice /mnt/home/rprice/bark/bark.sh 11 In the bark.sh script, the sound is produced