Curt <cu...@free.fr> writes: > 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.
Are you calling me stupid...? Thanks... ;-) >> 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.)