Xine fails to play DVD with snd_pcm_open()
 

Hello,

I just installed Slackware 9.1 and Xine. When I try to play a DVD with Xine, it fails. The error is:

>>> Check if another program don't already use PCM <<<
snd_pcm_open() failed:-13:Permission denied

I'm not sure what to check in /dev to make sure the permissions are open.

Audio works, because xmms works fine. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Joe

Sorry, some details I should have put in the first one:

2.4.22 kernel, 1.0.3 Alsa driver, and my sound card is an Audigy 2.

lsmod shows, among other things:

Module Size Used by Tainted: P
snd-pcm-oss 38148 1 (autoclean)
snd-mixer-oss 12792 1 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss]
nvidia 1965216 6 (autoclean)
amd768_rng 1808 0 (unused)
amd7xx_tco 3388 0 (unused)
usb-ohci 17992 0 (unused)
usbcore 60320 1 [usb-ohci]
snd-emu10k1 65076 2
snd-pcm 57920 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-emu10k1]
snd-timer 14692 0 [snd-pcm]
snd-hwdep 4960 0 [snd-emu10k1]
snd-util-mem 1152 0 [snd-emu10k1]
snd-page-alloc 6420 0 [snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm]
snd-ac97-codec 43868 0 [snd-emu10k1]
snd-rawmidi 13248 0 [snd-emu10k1]
snd-seq-device 3908 0 [snd-emu10k1 snd-rawmidi]
snd 30948 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-hwdep snd-util-mem snd-ac97-codec snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device]
soundcore 3556 8 [snd]
emu10k1-gp 1352 0 (unused)
gameport 1468 0 [emu10k1-gp]
ohci1394 24712 0 (unused)
ieee1394 44100 0 [ohci1394]
3c59x 27216 1
ide-scsi 9520 0
agpgart 40184 3


Thanks,

Joe

If you're using a sound system (like arts (kde) or esd (gnome)), you might have to turn it off before running xine. The arts daemon is usually pretty good about auto-suspending after 30 seconds of unuse or so, but it can't hurt to kill it off.

Another option is to use a program like soundwrapper that will try to redirect sound requests.

I'm using alsa. Neither arts nor esd are running. Sound works fine through xmms, just not through xine.

Thanks,

Joe