> I'm currently running OpenSuse10.3 with MPlayer v1.0rc2. > > I cannot run mplayer on separate console windows. for example, I open > one console and execute mplayer for an audio file. it works ok. I then > open another console and execute mplayer to play another audio file, > this time, it seems to play based on the visual feedback from mplayer > but there is no sound. The console output of this failed mplayer test > is shown below. I can notice the "Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: > Device or resource busy". This could be the problem: Hi! That's not an MPlayer problem, but a sound driver problem. OSS can (without some tweaking) only play one set of wave channels simultaneously. If you use alsa instead, multiple wave outputs will be mixed automatically. Greets, Kiste
