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From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
To: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sound: -EPERM on first mplayer invocation
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:50:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A7947ED.1050300@ladisch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <s5hab2ees0v.wl%tiwai@suse.de>

Takashi Iwai wrote:
> I wrote:
> > The file instances are different.  It implies that mplayer opens the
> > device at each time but doesn't close.
> > It sounds like a bug in mplayer to me.
> 
> ... or the first control handle keeps opened and blocks it.

mplayer indeed leaks the mixer handle.  This happens if setting the
volume fails, i.e., _after_ this message:
> > > > > > > alsa-control: error setting left channel, Operation not permitted


Best regards,
Clemens

  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-05  8:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-02 21:36 sound: -EPERM on first mplayer invocation Denys Vlasenko
2009-08-03  6:55 ` Takashi Iwai
2009-08-04  9:01   ` Denys Vlasenko
2009-08-04  9:16     ` Takashi Iwai
2009-08-05  2:32       ` Denys Vlasenko
2009-08-05  5:37         ` Takashi Iwai
2009-08-05  5:41           ` Takashi Iwai
2009-08-05  8:50             ` Clemens Ladisch [this message]
2009-08-05 22:00             ` Denys Vlasenko

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