[gentoo-amd64] No sound with mplayer-bin and alsa when amarok is playing

[gentoo-amd64] No sound with mplayer-bin and alsa when amarok is playing

[Jan Meier]

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Hello,

I have a problem with mplayer-bin and alsa when amarok is playing. When I play 
a movie mplayer shows the following error message: 

alsa-init: using device default
alsa-lib: pcm_direct.c:222:(make_local_socket) connect failed: èÔZ¡: No such 
file or directory
alsa-lib: pcm_dmix.c:851:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to connect client
alsa-init: playback open error: No such file or directory
Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound.

When I stop amarok it does work fine. Any suggestions why?

Regards

Jan

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] No sound with mplayer-bin and alsa when amarok is playing

[Daemon Xavier]

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Well if you only have your motherboard and are using that for your sound
configuration, then however you have your ALSA set up, it will only let one
program use the sound driver.  I have that problem with my World of Warcraft
and Teamspeak.  Although If you are nifty enough to have an actual sound
card with your motherboard, you may find this helpful.

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ALSA_Complete_%28includes_dmix%29

regards.

On 1/5/07, Jan Meier <jan@codejunky.org> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have a problem with mplayer-bin and alsa when amarok is playing. When I
> play
> a movie mplayer shows the following error message:
>
> alsa-init: using device default
> alsa-lib: pcm_direct.c:222:(make_local_socket) connect failed: èÔZ¡: No
> such
> file or directory
> alsa-lib: pcm_dmix.c:851:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to connect client
> alsa-init: playback open error: No such file or directory
> Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound.
>
> When I stop amarok it does work fine. Any suggestions why?
>
> Regards
>
> Jan
>
> --
> Get my public key from: www.codejunky.org/codejunky.asc
>
>
>


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