On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Marius Hooge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jacob Meuser wrote:
>>
>> first, autospawning does not work in esound-0.2.38. I don't know if
>> that's the version you are using, but that could be part of the problem.
>> I'm pretty sure I had mpd playing through esd at one point.
>>
>> let's see. add a group, _esd. add myself and _mpd to that
>> group. start esd as myself, chgrp _esd ~/.esd_auth, chmod g+rw
>> ~/.esd_auth. echo "default_driver=esd" > /etc/libao.conf.
>> sudo mpd. starts fine, but oh, no workie.
>>
>> ok, make /var/esd. make that _mpd's home, and link from there an
>> .esd_auth to my .esd_auth. that seems to work.
>>
>
> I have mpd playing through libao-esd, but without running them under their
> own users.
> Since Nick asked for a configuration that worked, here's mine:
>
> I first start esd with -noterminate, then mpd.
> ~/.mpd.conf:
> [..]
> audio_output {
> type "ao"
> driver "esd"
> name "ESD"
> }
>
> I installed the mplayer-esd port.
> ~/.mplayer/config:
> ao=esd
>
> If this works you can try running esd and mpd under their own users.
> hth
> - Marius
>
Aaah, I didn't realize how the user's homedir interacted with this
all. What must have been happening is that when I clicked 'play' in
soundtracker (which was running as myself) it looked for ~/.esd_auth,
didn't find it, so tried to spawn an esd, which promptly failed
because the other esd already had the soundcard.
All it took was:
ln -sf /var/empty/.esd_auth ~/.esd_auth
and now both mpd and soundtracker can play at once. There's some lag
when I first hit play but that's probably because right now it's
running with tcp and autospawning which probably are eating at it
quite a bit.
I am going to play around some more and see if I can get esd running
as a system-wide daemon.
Weird, I just tried to run esd with "-noterminate" but it said
"unrecognized option: -noterminate". The esd that packages installed
for me is "Esound version 0.2.34", what are you running?
I built and installed mplayer-esd and edited ~/.mplayer/config to add
ao=esd like suggested but when that is in there mplayer just says
"Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound.
Audio: no sound
Video: no video
Exiting... (End of file)"
If I don't tell mplayer "ao=esd" then it grabs /dev/audio directly
(and works fine).
Do you know how to debug this?
((I also have
$ cat /etc/libao.conf
default_driver=esd
if that is relevant))
Thank you for all the help so far, I had given up on esd.
-Nick
