Re: bookworm multimedia scripts silent in console but play in mate-terminal

[Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>]

Jude DaShiell wrote: 
> Here's one script that works that way.  Standard package install choices
> were done desktop environment, mate, and standard utilities.
> An install with only standard utilities and no desktop environment and no
> mate prevents this script from playing at all.

> #!/usr/bin/env bash
> # file: wdvr.sh - shell script tune into wdvr
> station="https://wdvrfm.org/live";
> mpv --really-quiet $station

My initial guess is that mpv is trying to play through
PulseAudio, or via ALSA in a way which requires mpv to have sole
control of ALSA (and that control is not available).

--audio-device=help (and then setting an appropriate driver)
might help.

-dsr-