Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

[Curt <curty@free.fr>]

On 2017-07-02, Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> No, neither
>
>  XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/0 mplayer ... ?
>
> nor
>
>  export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=""
>
> did help...

Well I'm still reading that "pulseaudio in normal user mode will allow
only the active session as marked by ConsoleKit to access the audio
hardware." 

So it would seem that you'd have to run pulseaudio as a system-wide
instance for this to work (sound for your regular user and root through
pulseaudio, configured by each with pavucontrol).


> Thanks,
>
> Rodolfo
>
>


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