Please help with mplayer problem

[Bob Marcan]

Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> Robin Laing wrote:
> 
>> 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
>>>
>>> It's given the message ever since and does not play files remotely 
>>> (not sure about locally) with mplayer at least. What can I do to 
>>> troubleshoot this? Any ideas.  My friend has also reported that songs 
>>> take forver (a long wait) to play music now. She uses KPlayer, which 
>>> uses mplayer.
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>> Thank you.
>>>
>>
>> Is there an old process of mplayer still running.  I have had that 
>> occur in the past.  I have had to manually kill the pid
>>
>> Check what is running.
>>
>> I have also had problems with esd not releasing properly.
> 
> 
> Nice idea.. But that didn't work. No runing pricesses. Plus the machien 
> has been shut down and booted severtal times. It apperently is also 
> playing some KDE alert sound after every song.
> 

Try
rm ~/.gmplayer/gui.*

Regards, Bob

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