On 2017-07-01, Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.med...@gmail.com> wrote: > Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> writes: > >>> > How about >>> > >>> > vlc cdda:// ? >>> >>> Yes, vlc works! >> >> Not quite what you wanted but you can now play an audio CD. > > Recently I noticed that mplayer, when playing audio CDs, is always complaining > this way:
When playing audio CDs? > `Audio device got stuck!' > > , and sound continuosly `jumps' so becoming unheardable, and I thought it was > the device's hardware fault. But vlc plays well with no at all that problem. > I wonder about that... mplayer is very potent and comfortable, that's why I > use it... > > >> We suppose the CD ROM shows activity (a blinking light) with >> 'mplayer cdda://' even though there is no sound output. > > > I had settled the alias: `mplayer = mplayer -demuxer lavf'. After removing > it, > now mplayer works regularly over CDs (apart from the above problem) as a > normal Oh, I see. There's something vaguely wild about this goose. > user. Instead, as root, the problem I started this thread with remains: > mplayer doesn't work... Not so great a problem, after all. But isn't it > strange that something user can do root can't...? > Comme c'est étrange... >> How do you go on with >> >> 'mplayer -ao alsa cdda://'? > > > This doesn't help. But, I repeat, mplayer now works and read audio CDs from > normal user. Only, it continuosly `jumps' and gets stuck. (I will open a new > thread about that.) > > Rodolfo > > -- “Yeah yeah.” --Sidney Morgenbesser's retort to a speaker who said that although there are many cases in which two negatives make a positive, he knew of no case in which two positives made a negative.
