On Tue, 01 Aug 2017 08:30:57 +0200, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote: > Hi, > > > My purpose is to run mplayer in a crontab. My line: > > 00 00 * * * mplayer file > > > If I run mplayer in CLI, everything is good. If cron does it, no sound. > And log is: Audio becomes stuck! > > > displayed permanently in the MPlayer screen. > > > I use a fresh testing. > > > I have just changed to mpv. Here no such logs after crontab, but still > no sound. > > > How can I get more logs? Should I reportbug to mpv or pulseaudio? Where > could I check? Not a permission problem on Pulseaudio as cron user would > run mpv instead of my regular user? >
I had a similar problem when wanted to run vlc in a crontab. The solution was to execute in crontab the following command: env DISPLAY=:0 /home/your_username/full_path_goes_here/play_something.sh play_something.sh contained actual bash command to run vlc with path to an mp3 file to play. This way vlc get the required environment variable set by desktop session.
