audio error in VLC

[Peter Garrett]

On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:27:41 -0400
"Gary Kirkpatrick" <pegngary at gmail.com> wrote:

	And Peter Garrett wrote:

> > The cdda:// option for mplayer is separate, as is the device option.
> > Try something like:
> >
> > mplayer  -cache 500 -cdda speed=1 cdda://1 -cdrom-device  /dev/scd0

( pasted where it should have been... Please don't top post...)

> I got a similar result:  :~$ sudo mplayer  -cache 500 -cdda speed=1 cdda://1
> -cdrom-device  /dev/scd0

I have no idea why you used sudo, but that's a separate issue...
I assume that your user is in the "cdrom" group? Check with the command:

groups

> MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.2.3 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
> CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1400MHz (Family: 6, Model: 9, Stepping:
> 5)
> CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
> Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
> mplayer: could not connect to socket
> mplayer: No such file or directory
> Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote
> control.

Mplayer always spits out the stuff above here, too - but it's
harmless...
> 
> Playing cdda://1.
> Can't open disc.
> Failed to open cdda://1.

Is the device actually /dev/scd0 ? For example, I have a cd-rw and a
dvd-rw device here - the dvd device is /dev/scd1 , the cd-rw is
device /dev/scd0 .

cdda://1 would be the first track on the disc. Do you get the same
result with, say, cdda://2 and so on?

> Also about 1/2 the time when I load Hardy I have no sound at all.  Other
> times I have sound with some things and not others.  It's quite unreliable.

I don't think this is related - for example, if this was a sound issue
I would expect mplayer to at least find the device and open the disc.

-- 
Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au>
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