[MPlayer-users] MPlayer – changing ‘ao=’ codec order in mplayer.conf does not appear to work for per user config?

[Jim Cross]

It is still not clear if this is expected behavior, a bug or I'm not
configuring correctly?:
Trying to run MPlayer from a browser using javascript via lighttpd web
server and a python script. The 'home' directory is '/var/www' but MPlayer
notifies 'Cannot find HOME directory.' - Does the home dir MPlayer looks
for have to be located in the '/home/' directory structure?
As Mplayer is not able to locate home for lighttpd user www-data and the
'local' config file is not found, I tried using the
'include=/var/www/mplayer.conf' line in /etc/www/mplayer.conf but still
need to run MPlayer with sudo to successfully read the fifo in slave mode.

On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 6:24 PM, Jim Cross <jimgcross at gmail.com> wrote:

> You would think!
>
> But I set the perms so anyone can change the fifo as follows:
> 'sudo chmod 777 /run/shm/mpcontrol'
>
> Checking:
> $ ls -al /run/shm/mpcontrol
> prwxrwxrwx 1 www-data www-data 0 Sep 13 11:15 /run/shm/mpcontrol
>
> But mplayer does not read the fifo (data stays in fifo and mplayer does
> not change volume for example ) unless I run mplayer with sudo, then it
> appears to work OK.
>
> I have tried changing owner of fifo to pi:pi and root:root with the same
> response, i.e. does not read fifo unless run with 'sudo'.
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Reimar Döffinger <
> Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> On 13.09.2014, at 12:36, Jim Cross <jimgcross at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Thanks again for the suggestion.
>> > Currently, programmatically (python script) I modify owner & group  of
>> > '/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf' to 'www-data:www-data' and then append
>> > 'include=/var/www/mplayer.conf'.
>>
>> As long as you know you really shouldn't allow anyone but root to write
>> the global one or anything it includes.
>> If the www-data account is compromised the config file can be used to
>> take any other accounts that use MPlayer.
>>
>> > Obviously, this allows the same goal and
>> > have a modifiable config file but is a bit hackish. That said, there is
>> > still an issue to get the fifo (obviously slave mode) to work (for
>> mplayer
>> > to read the fifo), I still need to start mplayer with sudo for it to
>> read
>> > the fifo, again a bit hackish.
>>
>> Fifos should have permissions like any other file, so you just adjust
>> them?
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