Re: Sound problem (mplayer/sid)
On 2004-05-23, Victor Munoz penned:
>
> 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.
>
Do you use esd for your sound? Sometimes esd just disappears on my
system, and I need to restart it to get sound again.
--
monique
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