On Sat 01 Jul 2017 at 16:00:12 (+0000), Curt wrote:
> On 2017-07-01, David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > Secondly, most of the error messages involved alsa rather
> > than the CD player. How does root get on with playing
> > sound files from other sources?
> >
>
> Actually, upon further reflection, the root error message from his
> original post was:
>
> 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.)
>
> which might mean the incriminated environment variable is being inherited
> from his
> user shell (if he used 'su' maybe).
>
> So, in order obviate that, he should--well, you tell me.
# mplayer --noconfig=all --ao=alsa cdda://
↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑
should deal with that.
Without that parameter, I (mplayer2) get an extra line of output:
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 1411.2 kbit/100.00% (ratio: 176400->176400)
AO: [pulse] Init failed: Connection refused ←--------
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Cheers,
David.
