Bug#600496: vlc: VLC seems to lock all alsa devices
Henri
henrimenke4 at aim.com
Sun Oct 17 16:28:11 UTC 2010
Subject: vlc: VLC seems to lock all alsa devices
Package: vlc
Version: 1.1.3-1
Severity: normal
When I play a file with VLC and want to open another file while VLC is still
running the sound of the new file refuses to play.
E.g. VLC is running and I want to play a file with ogg123
---
$ ogg123 File.ogg
Audio Device: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) output
Playing: File.ogg
Ogg Vorbis stream: 2 channel, 44100 Hz
Title:
Artist:
ReplayGain Peak (Track): 1.22616982
ReplayGain (Track): -9.07 dB
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1018:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
ERROR: Cannot open device alsa.
---
The other way round: I play a file with ogg123 and now want to open a
file in
VLC, VLC says as a popup notice in the GUI (debug log attached):
---
Potential ALSA version problem:
VLC failed to initialize your sound output device (if any).
Please update alsa-lib to version 1.0.23-2-g8d80d5f or higher to try to fix
this issue.
---
In this case VLC begins to play the file but without sound.
To me it seems like VLC locks all alsa devices on startup and if another
program uses alsa VLC refuses to play sound.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (989, 'testing'), (987, 'unstable'), (986, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages vlc depends on:
ii libaa1 1.4p5-38 ascii art library
ii libc6 2.11.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library:
Shared lib
ii libfreetype6 2.4.2-1 FreeType 2 font engine,
shared lib
ii libfribidi0 0.19.2-1 Free Implementation of the
Unicode
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.5-2 GCC support library
ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1 7.7.1-4 A free implementation of
the OpenG
ii libqtcore4 4:4.6.3-1+b1 Qt 4 core module
ii libqtgui4 4:4.6.3-1+b1 Qt 4 GUI module
ii libsdl-image1.2 1.2.10-2+b2 image loading library for
Simple D
ii libsdl1.2debian 1.2.14-6.1 Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii libstdc++6 4.4.5-2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libtar 1.2.11-6 C library for manipulating
tar arc
ii libvlccore4 1.1.3-1 base library for VLC and
its modul
ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-3 X11 client-side library
ii libx11-xcb1 2:1.3.3-3 Xlib/XCB interface library
ii libxcb-keysyms1 0.3.6-1 utility libraries for X C
Binding
ii libxcb-randr0 1.6-1 X C Binding, randr extension
ii libxcb-shm0 1.6-1 X C Binding, shm extension
ii libxcb-xv0 1.6-1 X C Binding, xv extension
ii libxcb1 1.6-1 X C Binding
ii libxext6 2:1.1.2-1 X11 miscellaneous extension
librar
ii ttf-freefont 20090104-7 Freefont Serif, Sans and
Mono True
ii vlc-nox 1.1.3-1 multimedia player and
streamer (wi
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages vlc recommends:
pn vlc-plugin-notify <none> (no description available)
pn vlc-plugin-pulse <none> (no description available)
Versions of packages vlc suggests:
ii mozilla-plugin-vlc 1.1.3-1 multimedia plugin for web
browsers
pn videolan-doc <none> (no description available)
Versions of packages vlc-nox depends on:
ii liba52-0.7.4 0.7.4-14 library for decoding ATSC
A/52 str
ii libasound2 1.0.23-2 shared library for ALSA
applicatio
ii libass4 0.9.9-1 library for SSA/ASS
subtitles rend
ii libavahi-client3 0.6.27-2 Avahi client library
ii libavahi-common3 0.6.27-2 Avahi common library
ii libavc1394-0 0.5.3-1+b2 control IEEE 1394
audio/video devi
ii libavcodec52 4:0.5.2-6 ffmpeg codec library
ii libavformat52 4:0.5.2-6 ffmpeg file format library
ii libavutil49 4:0.5.2-6 ffmpeg utility library
ii libc6 2.11.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library:
Shared lib
ii libcaca0 0.99.beta17-1 colour ASCII art library
ii libcddb2 1.3.2-2 library to access CDDB data
- runt
ii libcdio10 0.81-4 library to read and control
CD-ROM
ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.24-3 simple interprocess
messaging syst
ii libdc1394-22 2.1.2-3 high level programming
interface f
ii libdca0 0.0.5-3 decoding library for DTS
Coherent
ii libdirac-encoder0 1.0.2-3 open and royalty free high
quality
ii libdvbpsi6 0.1.7-1 library for MPEG TS and DVB
PSI ta
ii libdvdnav4 4.1.3-7 DVD navigation library
ii libdvdread4 4.1.3-10 library for reading DVDs
ii libebml0 0.7.7-3.1 access library for the EBML
format
ii libfaad2 2.7-4 freeware Advanced Audio
Decoder -
ii libflac8 1.2.1-2+b1 Free Lossless Audio Codec -
runtim
ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2.1 generic font configuration
library
ii libfreetype6 2.4.2-1 FreeType 2 font engine,
shared lib
ii libfribidi0 0.19.2-1 Free Implementation of the
Unicode
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.5-2 GCC support library
ii libgcrypt11 1.4.5-2 LGPL Crypto library -
runtime libr
ii libgnutls26 2.8.6-1 the GNU TLS library -
runtime libr
ii libgpg-error0 1.6-1 library for common error
values an
ii libkate1 0.3.7-3 Kate is a codec for karaoke
and te
ii liblircclient0 0.8.3-5 infra-red remote control
support -
ii liblua5.1-0 5.1.4-5 Simple, extensible,
embeddable pro
ii libmad0 0.15.1b-5 MPEG audio decoder library
ii libmatroska0 0.8.1-1.1 extensible open standard
audio/vid
ii libmodplug1 1:0.8.8.1-1 shared libraries for mod
music bas
ii libmpcdec6 2:0.1~r459-1 MusePack decoder - library
ii libmpeg2-4 0.4.1-3 MPEG1 and MPEG2 video
decoder libr
ii libmtp8 1.0.3-1 Media Transfer Protocol
(MTP) libr
ii libncursesw5 5.7+20100313-4 shared libraries for
terminal hand
ii libogg0 1.2.0~dfsg-1 Ogg bitstream library
ii libpng12-0 1.2.44-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libpostproc51 4:0.5.2-6 ffmpeg video postprocessing
librar
ii libproxy0 0.3.1-1 automatic proxy
configuration mana
ii libraw1394-11 2.0.5-2 library for direct access
to IEEE
ii libschroedinger-1.0-0 1.0.9-2 library for
encoding/decoding of D
ii libshout3 2.2.2-5+b1 MP3/Ogg Vorbis broadcast
streaming
ii libsmbclient 2:3.5.5~dfsg-1 shared library for
communication w
ii libspeex1 1.2~rc1-1 The Speex codec runtime library
ii libstdc++6 4.4.5-2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libswscale0 4:0.5.2-6 ffmpeg video scaling library
ii libtag1c2a 1.6.3-1 TagLib Audio Meta-Data Library
ii libtheora0 1.1.1+dfsg.1-3 The Theora Video
Compression Codec
ii libtwolame0 0.3.12-1 MPEG Audio Layer 2 encoding
librar
ii libudev0 160-1 libudev shared library
ii libupnp3 1:1.6.6-5 Portable SDK for UPnP
Devices, ver
ii libv4l-0 0.8.0-1 Collection of video4linux
support
ii libvcdinfo0 0.7.23-4+b2 library to extract
information fro
ii libvlc5 1.1.3-1 multimedia player and
streamer lib
ii libvlccore4 1.1.3-1 base library for VLC and
its modul
ii libvorbis0a 1.3.1-1 The Vorbis General Audio
Compressi
ii libvorbisenc2 1.3.1-1 The Vorbis General Audio
Compressi
ii libxml2 2.7.7.dfsg-4 GNOME XML library
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages libvlc5 depends on:
ii libc6 2.11.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library:
Shared lib
ii libvlccore4 1.1.3-1 base library for VLC and
its modul
Versions of packages libvlccore4 depends on:
ii libc6 2.11.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library:
Shared lib
ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.24-3 simple interprocess
messaging syst
ii vlc-data 1.1.3-1 Common data for VLC
Versions of packages vlc is related to:
pn libavutil50 <none> (no description available)
pn libavutil51 <none> (no description available)
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