On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 09:23:15AM +0000, Curt wrote: > On 2017-06-29, Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.med...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Please help... mplayer works fine when playing files (mp3, wav, etc), but > > fails in playing audio CDs. When I launch it as a normal user I have: > > > > $ mplayer cdda:// > > MPlayer 1.3.0 (Debian), built with gcc-6.3.0 (C) 2000-2016 MPlayer Team > > do_connect: could not connect to socket > > connect: No such file or directory > > Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote > > control. > > How about giving it the full path: > > mplayer -cdrom-device /dev/media/cdrom cdda://1 > mplayer -cdrom-device /dev/hdb cdda://1 > > or wherever the device exists on your machine. > > Also perhaps verify in a mixer program (alsamixer, e.g.) that cdrom audio > output > isn't muted. > > Maybe there's no audio cable between the cd drive and the sound card. > > ;-)
Moin together, having only recently succeded in running a movie DVD and a music CD using mplayer via smplayer under Debian Jenny on my laptop "hp 6730b", I found that my pulseaudio sound system needs to be activated BEFORE other processes using sound are started. [using 'ps ax', one can study the mplayer params set by smplayer] In order to be able to refresh my sound system at any time, even after processes using sound are already active, I'm using a simple alias (from within a terminal): alias pulse='sudo kill -9 $(pidof pulseaudio) && alsamixer -c0' hope this may help a bit W. Fokken