The first application you use locks the sound device with exclusive access. You need a sound server (ESound or, even better, PulseAudio) so that multiple apps would be able to play sound simultaneously
** Changed in: ubuntu Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Audio Team (ubuntu-audio) -- [Fiesty] Sound device is locked when playing a movie in VLC https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/128151 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs