[MPlayer-users] Playing Win Media Player stream....

[Erik Slagter]

> the user you are using to play the stream ist not allowed to write to the
> sound device.
> > audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Permission denied
> 
> try to play the stream with user root and you will see if it is a mplayer
> bug.

Never do that.

I'd suggest "ls -l /dev/dsp" and if necessary "chmod a+rw /dev/dsp" as
root.