Please help with mplayer problem

[Brian Fahrlander]

On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 20:16 -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> I have done some searching via google on the issue, however most of the 
> results aren't in english, strangely. Anyways. I'd setup FC3 for a 
> friend of mine. And I had connected to the machine via ssh (from my 
> home). Well I was having a little fun. I was playing a few songs on the 
> remote machine using mplayer. Suddenly mplayer gave the following message:
> 
> [AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Device or 
> resource busy

    Nope; you're not on the console, so you're not using the soundcard.
You _could_ use esd to do this, but it's a little insecure and kinda a
pain.  Esd would route the sound to your local esd, where it'd play on
your machine. (Yeah, it's a kind of magic...)

    :)

    Is this something you need, or just having fun? If you need it, you
might think about using that machine's webserver to host the files, and
play'em from mplayer/bmp/xmms/etc.

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