Re: mplayer won't play audio CD
On Sat 01 Jul 2017 at 01:12:18 +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> writes:
>
> > On Fri 30 Jun 2017 at 12:27:18 +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> >
> >> "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://'.
> >
> > How about
> >
> > vlc cdda:// ?
>
> Yes, vlc works!
Not quite what you wanted but you can now play an audio CD.
We suppose the CD ROM shows activity (a blinking light) with
'mplayer cdda://' even though there is no sound output.
How do you go on with
'mplayer -ao alsa cdda:// ?
> > You have "solved" this problem previously:
> >
> > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/02/msg01080.html
>
> Yes, but that time mplayer won't play files either. Now instead mplayer works
> with mp3, audio files... but fails only with audio CDs. That time the problem
> was solved installing alsaplayer-alsa and pulseaudio. Now I already have those
> packages in my system...
This could also be a software issue but this time involving pulseaudio.
--
Brian.
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