OMG Audiere can't play sounds if there're other programs...

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Topic Gosu / Gosu Exchange / OMG Audiere can't play sounds if there're other programs...

By TheOm3ga Date 2011-02-06 15:52

Ok, this is serious shit. Looks like Audiere (and therefore Gosu) cannot open the audio device if there are other programs playing sounds in Linux, (I don't know about Windows). The audiere::OpenDevice function fails to open /dev/dsp (/dev/dsp: Device or resource busy).

I think this is quite serious, as it breaks every gosu game that handles sounds even if you have a browser with a youtube video open, for instance.

By jlnr (dev) Date 2011-02-06 16:44

This is a pretty famous limitation of OSS (/dev/dsp), I still remember the times when that was the case for pretty much every Linux app, and I also know people who still have that problem for some reason.

I hoped that the OSS emulation of ALSA would overcome this. Well, it's back to SDL_mixer then :(

Topic Gosu / Gosu Exchange / OMG Audiere can't play sounds if there're other programs...