Hello
I am using kde 4.1 in opensuse 11.1. I am using amarok for playing music. I have noticed that whenever I am viewing anything on youtube, amarok displays a device busy message. How can I overcome this?
This did not happen in opensuse 10.3 which I used for 2 years. Please suggest.
Regards.
Same issue, but KDE 3.5
Some apps doesn’t want play sound and say what sound device is busy. Restart app decide the problem, but this is not normal behavior. And this become on my nootebook and desktop PC both with Suse 11.1 and different hardware.
Sometimes tuning the audio output mode/module on one’s PC’s multimedia app can solve this. Typically the alsa api will allow media to be played from multiple sources simultaneous.
Some openSUSE sound concepts: Sound-concepts - openSUSE
It’s strange, but 10.3 doesn’t have this issues on the same machines. By the way, in race relaese by release audio support in my practic(3 years) with Suse become bad. I became much more time to spend to make it work. IMHO
oldcpu wrote:
> Sometimes tuning the audio output mode/module on one’s PC’s multimedia
> app can solve this. Typically the alsa api will allow media to be played
> from multiple sources simultaneous.
>
> Some openSUSE sound concepts: ‘Sound-concepts - openSUSE’
> (http://en.opensuse.org/Sound-concepts)
>
>
Fortunately, I found this thread. I was about to make a post about the same problem.
oldcpu wrote:
> Sometimes tuning the audio output mode/module on one’s PC’s multimedia
> app can solve this. Typically the alsa api will allow media to be played
> from multiple sources simultaneous.
>
> Some openSUSE sound concepts: ‘Sound-concepts - openSUSE’
> (http://en.opensuse.org/Sound-concepts)
>
>
On my system, all xine based players can share the audio devices (e.g. Kaffeiene
and Amarok). However, flash player and Amarok cannot do it.
Cross_AM wrote:
> On my system, all xine based players can share the audio devices (e.g.
> Kaffeiene and Amarok). However, flash player and Amarok cannot do it.
I had that problem a while back. I could get flash and Amarok both working
with xine IF: after a clean boot, start a flash session before any other
audio app is launched. Flash would work. Next, with that flash session
still running, open Amarok. For me, that broke the deadlock. Flash,
Amarok, and Kaffeine (using xine) would then work until the next boot.
Don’t ask me why - I’m a pragmatist 
–
Will Honea
Will Honea wrote:
> Cross_AM wrote:
>
>> On my system, all xine based players can share the audio devices (e.g.
>> Kaffeiene and Amarok). However, flash player and Amarok cannot do it.
>
> I had that problem a while back. I could get flash and Amarok both working
> with xine IF: after a clean boot, start a flash session before any other
> audio app is launched. Flash would work. Next, with that flash session
> still running, open Amarok. For me, that broke the deadlock. Flash,
> Amarok, and Kaffeine (using xine) would then work until the next boot.
>
> Don’t ask me why - I’m a pragmatist
>
Tried that; but even that doesn’t break the deadlock for me. If I do that,
Amarok tells me that I failed to load audio drivers. I have to finish my work
with flash and restart Amarok to get any audio from it.
oldcpu wrote:
> Sometimes tuning the audio output mode/module on one’s PC’s multimedia
> app can solve this. Typically the alsa api will allow media to be played
> from multiple sources simultaneous.
>
> Some openSUSE sound concepts: ‘Sound-concepts - openSUSE’
> (http://en.opensuse.org/Sound-concepts)
>
>
I think I will need more specific help on this. I understand that for that I
need to provide more specific information. Well, to start with my Amarok
engine’s output plugin is set to automatic. I would like to know what other
information do I need to provide to get help.
Thank you
Cross
The problem I have, is I can not reproduce your problem.
I’m running openSUSE-11.1 (32-bit) with KDE-3.5.10. I have amarok-1.4.10 and Firefox-3.0.8 with flash-player-10.0.22.87-0.1.1 and mplayerplug-in-3.55-0.pm.1.
I just did a test, and noted my amarok had nothing in its play list (I have not used it for a while). So I added an mp3, noted the sound engine was set to the yauap engine, and I played an mp3 under amarok. Note my gstreamer has the latest packman packaged versions. I then went to youtube, and played a video, …
I had audio coming from both.
For me, this “just works”.
oldcpu wrote:
> Cross_AM;1972132 Wrote:
>> I think I will need more specific help on this. I understand that for
>> that I need to provide more specific information. Well, to start with my
>> Amarok engine’s output plugin is set to automatic. I would like to know
>> what other information do I need to provide to get help.
> The problem I have, is I can not reproduce your problem.
>
> I’m running openSUSE-11.1 (32-bit) with KDE-3.5.10. I have
> amarok-1.4.10 and Firefox-3.0.8 with flash-player-10.0.22.87-0.1.1 and
> mplayerplug-in-3.55-0.pm.1.
>
> I just did a test, and noted my amarok had nothing in its play list (I
> have not used it for a while). So I added an mp3, noted the sound engine
> was set to the yauap engine, and I played an mp3 under amarok. Note my
> gstreamer has the latest packman packaged versions. I then went to
> youtube, and played a video, …
>
> I had audio coming from both.
>
> For me, this “just works”.
>
>
Well mine is opensuse 11.1 (64-bit) with KDE 4.2. Amarok 2 does not work
properly. My Amarok is 1.4.10. I use xine engine with packman version of
libxine. My Firefox is version 3.0.8. I can understand that unless you reproduce
the problem you can’t get to its root. Thank you anyways.
I went to OSS and set all my defaults to OSS and all my sound problems in SUSE were fixed. There were quit a few programs I had to change from ALSA but it worked for me. Might have just been lucky but who knows.