[CentOS] Re: RPMforge mplayerplug-in seems to be locking up my sound device

On 4/16/06, Bart Schaefer barton.schaefer@gmail.com wrote:

Got home from vacation last night and ran yum update. Among other things installed was mplayerplug-in-3.25-1.el4.rf ... now any time I attempt to view CNN video, my sound device locks up

Some additional information: The sound device is only stuck because mplayer itself is stuck. An "lsof /dev/dsp" revealed an mplayer process holding the device open; killing that process allows other processes to access the device again.

Nevertheless this was not happening, or at least not happening predictably, before I upgraded to the new mplayerplug-in.