<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Ralph Giles <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:giles@thaumas.net">giles@thaumas.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On 18 May 2010 15:37, chandramouli narayanan <<a href="mailto:nc.n.mouli@gmail.com">nc.n.mouli@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> --------------- error when running with player_example<br>
> examples/player_example ~/Downloads/1696_lightnings.ogg<br>
</div>> [...]<br>
<div class="im">> Could not open audio device /dev/dsp.<br>
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</div>This means that another program is holding exclusive write access to<br>
your audio device. If you have another audio application open, such as<br>
a music player, try quitting that first. However, on recent systems<br>
this is often the pulseaudio daemon, so you may need to temporarily<br>
disable that for player_example to work with audio.<br>
<br>
If you're just interested in testing video playback, you can use the<br>
oggz-rip utility to strip out the audio track.<br>
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-r<br>
</font></blockquote></div><br>My issue had to do with no /dev/dsp. I've reconfigured Linux kernel with deprecated OSS support and loaded the module snd-pcm-oss and that created /dev/dsp. Now, I can use the example_player.<br>
<br>thanks<br>- mouli<br>