2005/6/20, david walcroft <david_walcroft@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
Any one have an idea as to what can cause this error on starting a video
"Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound."
when esd or alsa has taken sound device while mplayer use oss as default ao put ao=alsa in config files in $HOME/.mplayer may help
Thanks Yuan Yijun,
Yes my .mplayer/config is set for "ao=alsa" and similar for "ao=oss" no sound,looks as if I'll need to test others but I think it's to do with /dev/* not releasing the driver or something.
david
