Xine slow to start up while probing hardware

[Joel Hammer]

xine seems to be working but:
When I issue the command xine, I get a long delay while it probes the audio
hardware.
This is what I see.

xine *asx

This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.9.21
(c) 2000-2003 by G. Bartsch and the xine project team.
Built with xine library 1.0.0 (1-beta12)
Found xine library version: 1.0.0 (1-beta12).
XServer Vendor: The XFree86 Project, Inc. Release: 40201001,
        Protocol Version: 11, Revision: 0,
        Available Screen(s): 1, using 0
        Depth: 16.
        XShmQueryVersion: 1.1.
-[ xiTK version 0.10.3 ]-
-[ xiTK will use XShm ]-
-[ WM type: (EWMH) KWIN {KWin} ]-
Display is not using Xinerama.
main: probing <xshm> video output plugin

main: probing <alsa> audio output plugin <---DELAY IS HERE

xine_interface: unknown param 10
xine_interface: unknown param 10
xine_interface: unknown param 10
xine_interface: unknown param 10
video_out_xshm: tried to get unsupported property 2
video_out_xshm: tried to set unsupported property 2
video_out_xshm: tried to get unsupported property 2
Playlist file (082203_5_iraq1.asx) is valid (ASX3).
libmms: stream id 1, bitrate 20362
libmms: audio stream 1, video stream 0


This delay is a minute or so. Any insight appreciated.

Joel