From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 15 7:40:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from trinity.magpage.com (trinity.magpage.com [216.155.0.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEC3F37B400 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 07:40:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from magpage.com (poomba.magpage.com [216.155.24.136]) by trinity.magpage.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0FFeGo19714; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 10:40:16 -0500 Message-ID: <3A6319DF.36EB8E@magpage.com> Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 10:40:15 -0500 From: Daniel Frazier Organization: Magpage Internet Services X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: sean Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems with sound after using avifile References: <3A6149CE.42667A23@cfl.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG sean wrote: > > Hello, > I have a weird problem w/ aviplay(a program which plays divx movies) > whenever I watch a certain clip I get this error: > AudioRenderer: FATAL: Couldn't open audio device > The weird thing is that the problem only occurs w/ a certain clip, and > no sound works what so ever from any program after I run it. Im positive > my sound card isnt being used by another application. whenever i try to > run any programs that require sound I get errors similar to > "SNDCTL_DSP_SETFMT: Invalid argument". Im using 4.2, and my soundcard is > a plain Soundblaster 16. Ive never had any problems like this before. > Thanks ahead of time. Sean > I saw this same behavior and after some searching of the archives I came across a post that suggested using splay(/usr/ports/audio/splay) to play an arbitrary mp3 file to recover from the loss of sound. It works, as far as recovering audio capabilities goes, but I still don't know why/how aviplay kills the audio... -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Frazier Tel: 302-239-5900 Ext. 231 Systems Administrator Fax: 302-239-3909 MAGPAGE, We Power the Internet WWW: http://www.magpage.com/ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message