On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 08:42 +0300, Vladimir Petrović wrote: > I'm not sure about your specific case, do you have > sound in windows while mplayer is running ?
Yes. > You probably also have > some sound daemon like arts. esd (Ubuntu) > 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". Yes. I periodically run CNN and ESPN at the same time. > 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. Since two (or more) players work, I don't think the problem is in the host. ;-) More data: If I start mplayer, then a guest VBox (winxp), sound works simultaneously for both the VBox and one or more mplayer instances on the host. Additionally, if I stop the mplayer instances, while the VBOx guest is still running, I am able to restart mplayer instances and hear audio. HOWEVER, if I start the guest VBox first, then mplayer wont start unless I disable audio, but audio continues to work on the VBox. I suspect that VBox is doing some sort of audio locking on startup, and it only takes complete control (full locking?) if it can, otherwise it "shares" (sorry for my complete lack specificity wrt alsa mixing) -Jim P. _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
