Re: mplayer won't play audio CD
On 2017-07-01, Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> wrote:
> Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> writes:
>
>>> > How about
>>> >
>>> > vlc cdda:// ?
>>>
>>> Yes, vlc works!
>>
>> Not quite what you wanted but you can now play an audio CD.
>
> Recently I noticed that mplayer, when playing audio CDs, is always complaining
> this way:
When playing audio CDs?
> `Audio device got stuck!'
>
> , and sound continuosly `jumps' so becoming unheardable, and I thought it was
> the device's hardware fault. But vlc plays well with no at all that problem.
> I wonder about that... mplayer is very potent and comfortable, that's why I
> use it...
>
>
>> We suppose the CD ROM shows activity (a blinking light) with
>> 'mplayer cdda://' even though there is no sound output.
>
>
> I had settled the alias: `mplayer = mplayer -demuxer lavf'. After removing it,
> now mplayer works regularly over CDs (apart from the above problem) as a normal
Oh, I see. There's something vaguely wild about this goose.
> user. Instead, as root, the problem I started this thread with remains:
> mplayer doesn't work... Not so great a problem, after all. But isn't it
> strange that something user can do root can't...?
>
Comme c'est étrange...
>> How do you go on with
>>
>> 'mplayer -ao alsa cdda://'?
>
>
> This doesn't help. But, I repeat, mplayer now works and read audio CDs from
> normal user. Only, it continuosly `jumps' and gets stuck. (I will open a new
> thread about that.)
>
> Rodolfo
>
>
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