Curt <cu...@free.fr> writes: > On 2017-07-01, Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.med...@gmail.com> wrote: >> deloptes <delop...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> Rodolfo Medina wrote: >>> >>>> Are you calling me stupid...? Thanks... ;-) >>> >>> just to be clear. You have had setup an alias for mplayer, correct? So >>> everything people advised here was run via this alias 'mplayer -demuxer >>> lavf'. >> >> >> I'm sorry... I apologize. But the problem with root still remains... > > There's no need to apologize. As for the root problem I don't believe it > is a problem in the sense you mean it (I think). pulseaudio is not > intended to be run as root (that's what I'm reading on the innertubes). As > usual my understanding of the whole kaboodle is quite fragile, however. Also > I believe pulseaudio is configured per-useredly. IOW you'd have to > configure it for root in order for it to work (for root). Maybe. > > Unless you're not using pulseaudio, in which case... > > Now you see who's stupid. > > ;-) >
:-) thanks...