My understanding is: mplayer might use pulseaudio which allows the sharing of the soundoutput (on my ubuntu this is the default) JAVA uses the alsa device directly so it can not be used by other applications. iced tea JAVA does have a pulseaudio device but I can only produce broken up sound using this.
Paul. 2009/10/13 cyberGn0m <cy6erg...@gmail.com> > Anybody tested java sound on linux? As I know, java uses ALSA on Linux to > play audio.. so, i have a problem with it: when java plays sound, other > applications can't play anything. When other applications plays sound, java > can't. As i know, mplayer can play sound via ALSA and i can open many > players and all of them will plays as expected... > > >
