Re: Sound cron job delayed while VLC running
On Fri, 8 Jun 2018 16:33:45 +0200 (CEST)
Roger Price <debian@rogerprice.org> 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 /mnt/home/rprice/bark/bark.sh 11
>
> In the bark.sh script, the sound is produced by sox command
>
> /usr/bin/play -q hour12.au
>
> I have now migrated to Debian stretch but would still like to hear Biff barking
> the hours. The cron job works well as long as VLC is not running. But while
> VLC runs, the cron job waits. When VLC has finished, I hear the barking. Is
> there some way of having the barking while VLC plays?
>
> I can see nothing in VLC configuration file ~rprice/.config/vlc/vlcrc which
> prevents others from accessing the sound card at the same time.
Is sound mixing generally working on your machine? Try, e.g., the dmix
test from here:
https://alsa.opensrc.org/DmixPlugin
Celejar
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