Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

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

Curt <curty@free.fr> writes:

> On 2017-07-01, Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> wrote:
>> deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>>>
>>>> Are you calling me stupid...?  Thanks... ;-)
>>>
>>> just to be clear. You have had setup an alias for mplayer, correct? So
>>> everything people advised here was run via this alias 'mplayer -demuxer
>>> lavf'.
>>
>>
>> I'm sorry...  I apologize.  But the problem with root still remains...
>
> There's no need to apologize. As for the root problem I don't believe it
> is a problem in the sense you mean it (I think). pulseaudio is not
> intended to be run as root (that's what I'm reading on the innertubes). As
> usual my understanding of the whole kaboodle is quite fragile, however. Also
> I believe pulseaudio is configured per-useredly.  IOW you'd have to
> configure it for root in order for it to work (for root). Maybe.
>
> Unless you're not using pulseaudio, in which case...
>
> Now you see who's stupid.
>
> ;-)
>

:-) thanks...