Re: bookworm multimedia scripts silent in console but play in mate-terminal
Pipewire is now on this machine since this didn't work with pulseaudio
either.
-- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in
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order." Ed Howdershelt 1940.
On Thu, 13 Apr 2023, Dan Ritter wrote:
> 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-
>
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