Re: Problem pulseaudio
On Tue, 01 Aug 2017 08:30:57 +0200, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote:
> Hi,
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> My purpose is to run mplayer in a crontab. My line:
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> 00 00 * * * mplayer file
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> If I run mplayer in CLI, everything is good. If cron does it, no sound.
> And log is: Audio becomes stuck!
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> displayed permanently in the MPlayer screen.
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> I use a fresh testing.
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> I have just changed to mpv. Here no such logs after crontab, but still
> no sound.
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> How can I get more logs? Should I reportbug to mpv or pulseaudio? Where
> could I check? Not a permission problem on Pulseaudio as cron user would
> run mpv instead of my regular user?
>
I had a similar problem when wanted to run vlc in a crontab. The solution
was to execute in crontab the following command:
env DISPLAY=:0 /home/your_username/full_path_goes_here/play_something.sh
play_something.sh contained actual bash command to run vlc with path to an
mp3 file to play.
This way vlc get the required environment variable set by desktop session.
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