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altiris

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Registered: 2014-12-23

Posts: 50

DOSBox mutes sound of other applications and vice versa

I am trying to run GOG's Little Big Adventure via Wine (which then launches dosbox). If I have say a video from YouTube playing and launch the game, it will not have any sound. If I launch the game first and play a youtube video afterwards than the youtube video won't have any sound. This is not only youtube though, Spotify doesnt work as well, any media trying to be opened from VLC does not work either. It mutes anything else. What can I do about this? I am guessing its a setting in pulseaudio (like there is one for skype).

altiris

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Registered: 2014-12-23

Posts: 50

Re: DOSBox mutes sound of other applications and vice versa

DId a bit more testing, DOSBox alone does not cause this...so I am guessing it is actually wine that is doing this.

runical

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From: The Netherlands

Registered: 2012-03-03

Posts: 896

Re: DOSBox mutes sound of other applications and vice versa

Did you install pulseaudio-alsa? It could be that wine/dosbox tries to get a lock on the alsa sound device, locking everything else out.

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