Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

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

Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> writes:

> On Sun 02 Jul 2017 at 15:10:34 +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>
>> Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> writes:
>> 
>> > On Sun 02 Jul 2017 at 09:29:25 +0000, Curt wrote:
>> >
>> >> On 2017-07-02, Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >==========================================================================
>> >> >XDG_RUNTIME_DIR (/run/user/1000) is not owned by us (uid 0), but by uid
>> >> >1000! (This could e g happen if you try to connect to a non-root
>> >> >PulseAudio as a root user, over the native protocol. Don't do that.)
>> >> >AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample) Video: no video
>> >> >Starting playback...
>>  
>> 
>> No, neither
>> 
>>  XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/0 mplayer ... ?
>> 
>> nor
>> 
>>  export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=""
>> 
>> did help...
>
> Help with what? export.... is only intended to make the variable empty
> so that the message above does not appear after a su to root. It does
> not turn a non-working audio into a working one.
>
> Your original problem (no CD audio as a user) has been solved. No audio
> as root is an interesting problem but hardly critical. I have no issue
> with audio as a user or as root when playing a CD. Reviewing any tweaks
> you have made to the system is advised.


It's so...  All right.

Thanks,

Rodolfo