On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 05:32:39PM -0700, Steven wrote: > * Jacob Meuser <[email protected]> [081223 15:30]: >> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:12:14AM -0700, Steven wrote: >>> * Steven <[email protected]> [081223 10:30]:
>>> It seems that if you have an audio/video/multimedia application >>> running when you start up aucat in server mode you get a "stopped >>> input" message and then you have to use "kill -9 <pid>" to kill the > >> eh? >> >> $ cat > /dev/audio < /dev/zero & >> [1] 24358 >> $ aucat -l >> safile_new: can't open device >> $ fg >> cat > /dev/audio < /dev/zero >> ^C >> $ >> >> where exactly do you see the "stopped input" message? >> > I saw it after I started aucat in server mode while vlc was running. > Perhaps vlc is grabbing some other device? I don't know if that > makes sense. Repeating what you did above gives me the same result > as what you saw. iirc, SDL (default audio backend for VLC) will try to use another "driver" if the preferred one isn't available. > I'm not in front of my computer right now, so I'll have to try this > again when I get home and in front of a terminal. Maybe vlc was > loaded into memory, but not streaming anything. Oh well, when I get > home I'll try to reproduce where I saw "stopped input" and aucat > didn't die. > > -- > W. Steven Schneider <[email protected]> > -- [email protected] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
