Mplayer Audio FC 4

[david walcroft]

Yuan Yijun wrote:
> 2005/6/20, david walcroft <david_walcroft at yahoo.com.au>:
> 
>>Any one have an idea as to what can cause this error on starting a video
>>
>>"Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound."
>>
> 
> 
> when esd or alsa has taken sound device while mplayer use oss as default ao
> put ao=alsa in config files in $HOME/.mplayer may help
> 
> 
Thanks Yuan Yijun,

Yes my .mplayer/config is set for "ao=alsa" and similar for "ao=oss" no 
sound,looks as if I'll need to test others but I think it's to do with 
/dev/* not releasing the driver or something.

   david