On 3/28/07, Jim Popovitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've noticed that, when using a VBox guest on a linux host, alsa is > locked out from any other players on the host. For instance, if I load > a Windows guest and play some audio then I cannot start up mplayer on > the host. However if I start mplayer on the host first, then the guest, > everything is fine. Also, if the guest is started first, any other > audio enable application (Evolution, etc.) hangs at launch until the > guest is shutdown... then the previously launched applications start > appearing. Any insight as to why? >
Probably your sound card doesn't support mixing two inputs on one output channel. I'm not sure about your specific case, do you have sound in windows while mplayer is running ? You probably also have some sound daemon like arts. I guess you are using ALSA as your main sound system (to check this see if you have /proc/asound/devices file). Now, try to run 2 mplayer instances, both with the option "-ao alsa". If running two mplayers doesn't work, you'll have to setup your ALSA for software multiplexing. I can send you mu asound.conf file if you need it as an example. _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
