[MPlayer-users] [AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: No such file or directory

[Jim Cross]

Thanks again Erik. I'll take a closer look but for now something is not
quite right as the web server still sends MPLAYER_HOME=/var/www/.mplayer
(copied below), which worked before:

User: www-data
<br>
Env variables: SERVER_SOFTWARE=lighttpd/1.4.31
SERVER_NAME=192.168.1.8
GATEWAY_INTERFACE=CGI/1.1
SERVER_PROTOCOL=HTTP/1.1
SERVER_PORT=80
SERVER_ADDR=0.0.0.0
REQUEST_METHOD=GET
REDIRECT_STATUS=200
QUERY_STRING=
REQUEST_URI=/cgi-bin/test.py?
REMOTE_ADDR=192.168.1.14
REMOTE_PORT=58375
CONTENT_LENGTH=0
SCRIPT_FILENAME=/var/www/cgi-bin/test.py
SCRIPT_NAME=/cgi-bin/test.py
DOCUMENT_ROOT=/var/www/
HTTP_HOST=192.168.1.8
HTTP_CONNECTION=keep-alive
HTTP_ACCEPT=text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
HTTP_USER_AGENT=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36
(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/38.0.2125.104 Safari/537.36
HTTP_REFERER=http://192.168.1.8/test.html
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING=gzip,deflate,sdch
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE=en-GB,en-US;q=0.8,en;q=0.6
MPLAYER_HOME=/var/www/.mplayer
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games
<br>
home dir is: /var/www<br>

On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Erik Auerswald <auerswal at unix-ag.uni-kl.de>
wrote:

> Hi Jim,
>
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 02:17:50PM +0000, Jim Cross wrote:
> > Hi Erik, many thanks for the prompt reply - and that's the answer! Saved
> me
> > waiting around for four hours :) (lots of beer 4 u)
>
> ;-)
>
> > The answer being the config file.... However...
> > The previous (and old) MPlayer ver I had installed using 'sudo apt-get -y
> > install mplayer'. This appears to pickup the web server created user
> > 'www-data' and I believe MPlayer auto created the .mplayer dir in
> > '/var/www/' (with an empty conf).
> > The 'however', the new ver (using svn and make)  probably doesn't?
> > Part of my build is to set the conf file in this dir (/var/www/.mplayer,
> > with 'ao=alsa,pulse,sdl:aalib' - as it appeared to be working I didn't
> > look any further until you mentioned the conf file - THANKS.
> > Although I can edit the 'installed mplayer' user 'pi' conf file
> (~/.mplayer
> > - and obviously it works), my preference is to control files in the web
> > server users directory (/var/www/). Is there a way to get mplayer to
> pickup
> > the www-data users dir /var/www/ and register the .mplayer dir there?
> > (I know I can edit mplayers global file but don't want to do that
> either...)
>
> You can use mplayer's -include option, or you can use the MPLAYER_HOME
> environment variable (see the MPlayer man page for details).
>
> Cheers,
> Erik
> --
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> cup of coffee.
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