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how to play two files at the same time?

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how to run two instances of totem such that I can play two files, say a mp3 & a movie, at the same time?

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Sam Cater (wraund-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#1

they probably cant, one would take over the sound card, rendering the other unable to connect

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poppyer (gaofeng) said : 		#2

but that shouldn't be the problem theoretically.
we have alsa or even esd stuff to deal with that, right?

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Sam Cater (wraund-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#3

well it depends, some programs take over sound completely, so other machines cant use it

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poppyer (gaofeng) said : 		#4

i don't think totem takes over the sound card.
for example, i can still use totem and mplayer to play two files at the same time
i think the only problem is totem doesn't allow me to open two files.. GUI design problem?
maybe I should open a feature request to gnome/totem. thanks anyway

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Sam Cater (wraund-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#5

it may be that totems coding does not allow two of them to work at the same time

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shemgp (shemgp) said : 		#6

You can run multiple instances of totem using
totem --no-existing-session

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Massimo Mund (qos) said : 		#7

If you are running ubuntu quantal you can use my ppa. I build a totem version which includes that --no-existing-session (although it was removed) command.

You can find packages here:

https://launchpad.net/~qos/+archive/totem

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