No sound in PAPlayer (device or resource busy), but videos work fine.

[lem000]

Running ubuntu 8.04 with a Prodigy HD2 soundcard (ICE1724 based)

I can play videos, but get no sound in music. xbmc.log gives the following error

18:55:40 T:3053684704 M:1106927616 INFO: PAP Player: Playing /home/martin/Music/dZihan & Kamien/Freaks & Icons/01 - After.mp3
18:55:40 T:3053684704 M:1106927616 ERROR: CreateStream - pcm_open, alsa error: Device or resource busy
18:55:40 T:3053684704 M:1123430400 ERROR: PAPlayer::Unable to create audio stream
18:55:40 T:2659023760 M:1123430400 INFO: PAPlayer: End of playback reached

Trying aplay during this time also results in a 'Device or resource busy'.

I previously tried switching to pulseaudio, which gave me music, but no sound in videos. I've reinstalled Ubuntu and started again with plain old ALSA. I've tried fiddling with .asoundrc, using plughw;0.0 as my sound device and nothing changes.

[tsella]

hi,

please try removing any asoundrc files, then change audio settings in boxee to 'iec958', and if does not work, to 'default'.

[cowst]

similar problem, i tried digital and analog audio with default and the other option but i get "audio stream none" during playback from online sorces

Oct 28 22:58:27 evil-laptop pulseaudio[6163]: module-alsa-sink.c: Error opening PCM device front:0: Device or resource busy
Oct 28 23:05:53 evil-laptop pulseaudio[6163]: module-alsa-sink.c: Error opening PCM device front:0: Device or resource busy
Oct 28 23:07:25 evil-laptop pulseaudio[6163]: module-alsa-sink.c: Error opening PCM device front:0: Device or resource busy
Oct 28 23:11:18 evil-laptop pulseaudio[6163]: module-alsa-sink.c: Error opening PCM device front:0: Device or resource busy

i have similar problems when i have an open movie (e.g. totem) and try to watch a youtube video with firefox. no audio because of busy device, so it must be a general ubuntu problem.

any experience on that?