Re: mplayer won't play audio CD
Curt <curty@free.fr> writes:
> 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.
Are you calling me stupid...? Thanks... ;-)
>> 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.)
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