I have the latest mplayer and 2.6.1 dev-kernel installed. ALSA works ok for the other applications, but this is the output of mplayer whenever started: MPlayer 1.0pre3-3.3.2 (C) 2000-2003 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Xeon/Celeron Northwood 2392 MHz (Family: 8, Stepping: 7) Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes MMX supported but disabled MMX2 supported but disabled SSE supported but disabled SSE2 supported but disabled CPUflags: MMX: 0 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0 Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: Reading config file /usr/share/mplayer/mplayer.conf Reading config file /root/.mplayer/config Reading /root/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/root/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory Reading /usr/share/mplayer/codecs.conf: 61 audio & 169 video codecs font: can't open file: /root/.mplayer/font/font.desc Font /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars) Using Linux hardware RTC timing (1024Hz). Can't open input config file /root/.mplayer/input.conf: No such file or directory Input config file /usr/share/mplayer/input.conf parsed: 53 binds Playing [DivX - ITA] Matrix 3 revolutions.avi. AVI file format detected. VIDEO: [DX50] 480x272 24bpp 23,990 fps 704,2 kbps (86,0 kbyte/s) ========================================================================== Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3 MP3lib: init layer2&3 finished, tables done AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 12000->176400 (96,0 kbit) Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm:mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3) ========================================================================== vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local display) ========================================================================== Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family Selected video codec: [ffodivx] vfm:ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-4) ========================================================================== Checking audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/16bit -> 44100Hz/2ch/16bit... AF_pre: af format: 2 bps, 2 ch, 44100 hz, little endian signed int AF_pre: 44100Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian) audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/sound/dsp: Dispositivo o risorsa occupata alsa-init: requested format: 44100 Hz, 2 channels, Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian) alsa-init: 1 soundcard found, using: hw:0,0 Then, the 'q' key doesn't make me quit... i have to CTRL+C it, and then it is reported : MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: enable_cache MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: ao2_init I tried also a fuser -k /dev/sound/dsp, but it's not busy. I don't know if it's related with bug #38476, but i don't think so. Mplayer still works correctly with oss on a 2.4 kernel. mplayer -vo oss doesn't work in 2.6.1 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Portage 2.0.50_pre19 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r3, 2.6.1-rc3-gentoo) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.1-rc3-gentoo i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.12 distcc 2.12.1 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.7.8 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=pentium4 -funroll-loops -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=pentium4 -funroll-loops -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://128.213.5.34/gentoo/ http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/ http://ftp.gentoo.skynet.be/pub/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib alsa apm arts avi berkdb bonobo cdr crypt cups doc dvd encode esd foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imap imlib java jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad maildir mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline samba sasl sdl slang spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib video_cards_i810 video_cards_i830"
I tried a few of things on this, and I isolated the problem... killing artsd before starting mplayer fix things (until artsd restart). Obviously this doesn't solve the problem, as I don't want to have to manually kill artsd everytime I have to start mplayer... using other '-vo' don't work (while there's artsd active, i mean). __ NOTE : ___ Moreover, I noticed that killing artsd fixes a lot of other strange things... for example, it lets me to use the xmms-alsa plugin, while before trying to enable it resulted with a crash of xmms itself. So this has rather to be considered a problem with artsd and alsa than mplayer, as many different applications are affected (mplayer, xmms, ogg123, mp123, etc)
I dont know but dont you consider normal that while artsd is holding a "lock" on your soundcard no other application trying directly to talk to your soundtrack (thus with ALSA) wont work ? It blocks, because the open of the sound device blocks if its already opened by another application (like artsd). So solutions for you might be: 1. dont use artsd in the first place 2. use artsd then take care that all applications you run use artsd in turn to output sound (mplayer compiled with "arts" USE flag and install media-plugins/xmms-arts and use it with XMMS for output of sound)
oh, I just investigated this a little, seems mplayer (default) when compiled with both ALSA and arts choses ALSA first when tries sound output and thus it blocks on alsa so you have: - either dont compile mplayer with alsa (if you use arts on a daily basis that makes sense) - run mplayer giving specific output sound driver (ie mplayer -ao arts) - edit some file in ~/.mplayer to configure mplayer to prefer arts over alsa when compiled with both...
Ok, one more and Im out ;) This is the solution for me , edit ~/.mplayer/config and add a line: ao=arts It practically instructs mplayer to use arts sound output so you dont need to use -ao arts each time you start it.
That's ok, but for other apps? Running them through artsdsp doesn't always work. Anyway, I disabled artsd at the moment. Things seem to go on well, but this isn't the expected result. PS: "Holding a lock on your soundcard" -> fuser /dev/dsp (or the other device created when loading alsa, i don't remember its name now) doesn't report anything. So, how's artsd affecting the output?
This isn't a bug. It's a limitation of your hardware. You might want to look into getting a full-duplex sound card or try setting up the alsa dmix plugin (by creating /etc/asound.conf... look at http://dev.gentoo.org/~eradicator/asound.conf-asym as a starting point)
