On Tue, Aug 21, David Haller wrote:
Hello,
On Tue, 21 Aug 2018, Michael Fischer wrote:
On Tue, Aug 21, David Haller wrote:
| cvlc -I default -R --gain 8.0 ${HOME}/ringtones/cash_register.mp3
BTW: I think you're missing the '--play-and-exit' there...
Note the `-R`. This is meant to wake me up at 3:00AM until I turn it off :)
Works - starting script from a terminal window while other `vlc` is running - the procmail recipe when NOT running another `vlc` process
How about _not_ using vlc then? It's not that mp3 are difficult to play. Try mplayer/mpeg123/play (from the sox package) or whatever else comes to mind...
Well, I did start with ffplay... same issues. vlc was my second try.
e.g. mplayer -ao alsa:noblock ...
Hmm, that might be the sort of incantation (alsa:noblock) I was wondering about. Aha! Winners (for now) both `mplayer -loop 0 /path/to/file` (-ao alsa:noblock didn't work from procmail) (though curiously, I still get the complaints in the journal with this one..) and `mpg123 --loop -1 /path/to/file` work (-o alsa fails) No idea why specifying the module makes it a problem, but thanks a bunch to David and Bengt. Cheers. Michael -- Michael Fischer michael@visv.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org