Hi,
I have MDK 10 running KDE, and every so often my computer will randomly play music from the start of a couple of .avi files I have lying around. Doesn't open mplayer or anything, the music just starts playing. I can't figure out how to stop it, so I just hit 'mute.' Has anybody ever seen this before? It's very strange.
Thanks!

wow, that's weird.

post the output of "top" when it happens again, because something has to be running those files. what other apps are you running when it happens?

Hi,
Here is the output of top:

1773 root 15 0 85216 16m 69m S 3.0 3.8 48:35.46 X
2991 johngcar 15 0 27528 15m 25m S 1.0 3.5 0:00.45 kdeinit
2302 johngcar 15 0 27572 16m 25m S 0.3 3.7 0:03.18 kdeinit
2317 johngcar 15 0 64632 24m 17m S 0.3 5.6 0:04.61 artsd
2448 johngcar 15 0 40052 29m 30m S 0.3 6.8 0:29.53 kdeinit
2959 johngcar 16 0 26668 14m 24m S 0.3 3.4 0:00.45 konsole
3024 johngcar 16 0 2172 1036 1964 R 0.3 0.2 0:00.07 top
1 root 16 0 1580 516 1424 S 0.0 0.1 0:03.28 init
2 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0
3 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.09 events/0
4 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.04 kblockd/0
5 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kapmd
6 root 25 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 pdflush
7 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 pdflush
8 root 25 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kswapd0
9 root 10 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0
11 root 17 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kseriod
15 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 kjournald
129 root 18 0 2164 1276 1588 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.24 devfsd
255 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khubd

and i noticed that 'artsd' disappeared after the music played.

Oh, and I forgot to add, I'm just running Konqueror and Gaim, maybe KWrite and a couple of console windows. I'm not sure if this is useful information, but the machine only plays stuff that I played through Totem Media Player, not GMplayer. I don't like Totem anyway as it has given me a few problems in the past which I am unable to reconcile.

Hello,
So, I still have this problem and I have just been using my machine on 'mute' to stop it. When sounds start randomly playing, a simple
killall artsd
will stop it, so the problem is that 'artsd' just starts randomly. Does anybody have any idea what might be starting this?
Thanks!