[MPlayer-users] Not able to hear sound on Solaris when Mplayer is used

[The Wanderer]

Nico Sabbi wrote:

> Narendra Kumar S.S wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I have mplayer installed on Solaris-10 on AMD-64 Opteron box.
>> 
>> I am trying to play a ".wmv" file using mplayer. I am able to see
>> the video, but there is no sound. When I play the same file using
>> gmplayer, I am able to hear the sound.
>> 
>> If I use the option "mplayer -ao sun <.wmv>", I am able to hear
>> sound. But, when I become super-user and execute mplayer, I don't
>> have to give any option. It plays the file without any problem.
> 
> then it's a problem with the permissions of your sound device.

Not necessarily.

In the console output from the message to which you responded, it first
says "/dev/dsp: No such file or directory", which does not sound like a
permissions issue. It then gives a "connection refused" from ESD in -ao
esd, which could perhaps be a permissions issue but is not necessarily so.

In the console output from the message in which he(?) was using 1.0pre8,
he gets a similar no-such-file message on /dev/dsp, but this time from
-ao oss. Again, that does not sound like a permissions issue to me.

We do not have the console output from a "successful" run, as root, so
we do not know what AO method was being used there. Theoretically, it is
at least faintly possible that root has a config file setting which
specifies -ao sun (or some other functioning AO) by default.

> As root you can run update_drv (or drv_update, I don't remember
> correctly) to change the permissions set by the driver (man
> update_drv)

Permissions on what, exactly, given that /dev/dsp does not appear to
exist?

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