From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 9 01:07:13 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8793A16A4CE for ; Sun, 9 Nov 2003 01:07:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from res241015.resnet.wsu.edu (res241015.resnet.wsu.edu [134.121.241.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A70FD43FE9 for ; Sun, 9 Nov 2003 01:07:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from william_devries@wsu.edu) Received: from res241015.resnet.wsu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) hA995K8j029536 for ; Sun, 9 Nov 2003 01:05:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from william_devries@wsu.edu) Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2003 01:05:20 -0800 From: William Dean DeVries To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20031109090520.GC25990@res241015.resnet.wsu.edu> References: <20031109034939.76f247b9.b_cassidy@bellsouth.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; Format=Flowed; DelSp=Yes; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20031109034939.76f247b9.b_cassidy@bellsouth.net> (from b_cassidy@bellsouth.net on Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 01:49:39 -0800) X-Mailer: Balsa 2.0.15 Lines: 40 Subject: Re: DVD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2003 09:07:13 -0000 Maybe some program is starting a sound daemon, like esd or something. If you started gnome or kde or possible anything else this may be the case. You should maybe use run 'ps aux' and see what is running when the sound doesn't work. If you have a sound daemon running it should be possible to make mplayer use it. You could try 'shutdown now'(it will quit all you programs) which will drop your system into single user mode after you mplayer's sound quits and then type 'exit'. I never reboot unless I have to. If the works after- wards its probably something using the sound device. You really should't be using root for anything but maintenance(ie watching movie should probably be done as a user). --James > Here is the output from dmesg on my DVD > > acd0: DVD-ROM at ata1-master PIO4 > > Using FreeBSD 4.8 > > When I play a DVD with mplayer (usually with these options) > > mplayer -brightness 9 -autosync 30 -dvd 1 /dev/dvd > > I can play the DVD without ANY problems what so ever. The problem is > this. Say I just booted into FreeBSD, did a startx, loged into root and > ran mplayer with those options. It will play fine and no sound problem. > After a couple hours or so (using those same commands usually) I can > still play the DVD but no sound. If I reboot *AFTER* the sound problem > then I get the sound back. There are no other applications running at > the same time to block the audio so I don't know what it could be. Other > than this small problem, DVD is working pretty good so far for me under > FreeBSD. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd. > org" > >