[SOLVED] Listen to Music while playing Urban Terror

[juanoleso]

I would like to listen to music while playing urban terror, but if I have rhythmbox or VLC open and playing a song while I start Urban Terror the UrT console says:

------ Initializing Sound ------
Initializing SDL audio driver...
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:874:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
SDL audio driver is "(UNKNOWN)".
SDL_OpenAudio() failed: No available audio device
Sound initialization failed.

No Sound in UrT only music.

Otherwise it says:

------ Initializing Sound ------
Initializing SDL audio driver...
SDL audio driver is "alsa".
SDL_AudioSpec:
Format: AUDIO_S16LSB
Freq: 22050
Samples: 470
Channels: 2
Starting SDL audio callback...
SDL audio initialized.
----- Sound Info -----
1 stereo
16384 samples
16 samplebits
1 submission_chunk
22050 speed
0x8b87610 dma buffer
No background file.
----------------------
Sound initialization successful.
--------------------------------
Sound memory manager started


Opening UrT and then Media Player gets opposite results...

Am i missing something? Any suggestions?

thanx.


Edit: Looking through this thread,[HOWTO] SDL sound (read: ALSA) support for Enemy Territory (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=362231&page=12), but I don't think his script supports the free ioUrbanTerror (or I didn't look through the script enough or I don't know enough about scripting).

[juanoleso]

Bump

Could this possible be a program limitation?

I'm looking at the Urban Terror forums as well. Will probably ask over there.

[detrate]

I'm not really familiar with UrT's engine but it sounds like it can be a sound lib conflict. Make sure your media player and UrT are both using the same sound lib, be it ALSA, pulseaudio or whatever.

[binarymutant]

idk about rhythmbox but UrT works well with audacious

[juanoleso]

Thanks you guys. It turned out to be a sound driver conflict. I used the gnome "Sound" GUI under preferences and set music from Autodetect to ALSA and now I have UrT effects with Rhythmbox music.

[detrate]

happy it worked out for you