[LAU] mplayer no go with snd-hdsp

[Giso Grimm]

On 09/17/2014 10:15 AM, Janina Sajka wrote:
> But, I can't use mplayer. Am I the only one? Anyone else tried mplayer
> on the Multiface?

I use mplayer with the jack backend on a RME hdsp card without problems.
I can reproduce the problem you describe with the alsa backend.

-- Giso

> 
> 
> For cli tools mplayer gives me the ability to pause, or move backwards
> and forwards through the audio file. This is important to me because I
> learn music these days by ear.
> 
> I know one can do this in the gui, but as a blind user the Linux gui
> audio apps aren't particularly friendly in my experience. Besides, it's
> so terribly simple, if rather imprecise, to use spacebar, left-arrow,
> and right-arrow.
> 
> The error I get:
> 
> Opening audio decoder: [pcm] Uncompressed PCM audio decoder
> AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 1536.0 kbit/100.00% (ratio:
> 192000->192000)
> Selected audio codec: [pcm] afm: pcm (Uncompressed PCM)
> ==========================================================================
> [AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: pcm_hw.c:327:(snd_pcm_hw_hw_params)
> SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_HW_PARAMS failed (-16): Device or resource busy
> [AO_ALSA] Unable to set hw-parameters: Device or resource busy
> Failed to initialize audio driver 'alsa:device=plughw=8.0'
> Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound.
> Audio: no sound
> Video: no video
> 
> 
> Exiting... (End of file)
> 
> Meanwhile, aplay and ecaplay have no problems. So, I thought I should
> ask if anyone else has experienced this before reporting to mplayer
> devs.
> 
> TIA
> 
> Janina
> 
>