[LUNI] Getting audio from mplayer

[sjk]

You need to add your local username to the audio group


> I installed the mplayer utility on Kubuntu and it seems there's nothing
> it can't play.
> I can now play video extracted from my Series-1 TiVo as well as all
> those .wmv files my Windoze friends email to me. :-)
>
> The one problem I had was if I ran as my user login, I didn't get sound.
> This was because the audio device, for some reason, has the permission
> bits set to:
>
> crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 2007-04-21 13:52 /dev/dsp
>
> So that the only people who can write to it are root and members of the
> group 'audio'.
> If I run as from a root console, I get audio, but no picture.  sudo
> worked fine, but it's a pain to have to remember to type it each time.
>
> So what I did, was make mplayer a member of the group 'audio' and set it
> to run with the GID:
>
> root at path:/usr/local/bin# chgrp audio mplayer
> root at path:/usr/local/bin# chmod g+s mplayer
> root at path:/usr/local/bin# ls -l mplayer
> -rwxr-sr-x 1 root audio 8081024 2007-04-08 18:05 mplayer
>
> I was wondering why the installation doesn't do this or is there a
> glaring security hole here that I'm missing?  This is a home system, so
> I don't necessarily need a DoD hardened system.
>
> - Mike Scott
>
>
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