Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

[Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>]

"Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> writes:

> Curt wrote:
>>  mplayer -cdrom-device /dev/hdb cdda://1
>> or wherever the device exists on your machine.
>
> Unless on very old systems, i'd expect /dev/sr0, /dev/sr1, ...

`mplayer -cdrom-device /dev/sr0 cdda://1' gives the same error output as
`mplayer cdda://'.


> Brian wrote:
>> It is worth noting that local access to the /dev/sr* device does
>> not depend on being a member of the cdrom group, Using 'ls -l':
>>  brw-rw----+ root cdrom 11, 0 June 30 11:15 /dev/sr0
>> The "+" is a result of 70-uaccess.rules in /lib/udev/rules.d. It
>> indicates an Access Control List (ACL).
>
> ... which can be inquired by
>
>   $ getfacl /dev/sr0
>   ...
>   user:thomas:rw-
>   ...
>
> So my desktop user got an extra permission to read and write, regardless
> of group membership or "others" permission.


Same output for me.

Rodolfo