[MPlayer-users] two sound files at the same time - problem with crontab (mplayer involved)

[Christian]

Hello Roger,


thanks a lot for your reply,

/> To run audio from another session (ie cron or an ssh login) you need 
to set all sorts of stuff for pulseaudio to work even if it is the same user

/That makes perfect sense and I have to admit I wouldn´t have thought of 
that.
I´ll look into that matter to see if I can find out more about it.

Perhaps I´ll be able to create a shell script like you suggested.

Thanks again for providing those good ideas of yours.

Many greetings and keep safe.

Rosika 😁
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Am 15.05.21 um 23:22 schrieb Roger Heflin:
> To run audio from another session (ie cron or an ssh login) you need to set
> all sorts of stuff for pulseaudio to work even if it is the same user.
> Cron has none of that environment set.  There may be something else in
> addition to the environment, or it may simply be just environment vars.
>
> I cannot tell you what you have to set as I have not wanted it to work bad
> enough to sort it out.
>
> Without that it does not know where the sound goes, nor where the video
> goes if something has video.
>
> You might be better off making a shell script to do the same thing and
> starting it up from the interactive session.
>