In message <20150207211921.6161324b@md-DOTS-E2> on Sat, 7 Feb 2015 21:19:21 +0100, Maurizio Dall'Acqua <[email protected]> said:
mau.h20> mau.h20> On Fri, 6 Feb 2015 20:09:21 -0600 mau.h20> "Matthew D. Fuller" <[email protected]> wrote: mau.h20> mau.h20> > On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 03:13:16PM +0100 I heard the voice of mau.h20> > Maurizio Dall'Acqua, and lo! it spake thus: mau.h20> > > mau.h20> > > I would like to know if there's someone willing to help me solve the mau.h20> > > problem that I have with rplay. mau.h20> > mau.h20> > I suspect rplay expertise is pretty thin; it's largely a pretty mau.h20> > historical bit of software at this point[0]. The latest release of it mau.h20> > is from 1999. The ctwm patches to use it came in 3.1 which was more mau.h20> > than 20 years ago, and haven't been meaningfully touched since. mau.h20> > mau.h20> > But, you can start with testing with rplay(1). That'll at least tell mau.h20> > you if your rplayd(8) config is working. Possible a firewall could be mau.h20> > blocking it, though I wouldn't expect to find such on localhost (and mau.h20> > while rplay's big feature is running over the network, how many people mau.h20> > are running their WM remotely as SOP?). mau.h20> > mau.h20> > rplayd does have a big pile of options; it's not clear how many of mau.h20> > them it only needs in special circumstances. If it turns out not to mau.h20> > be working, it does appear to have a --debug mode that might point you mau.h20> > in the right direction. mau.h20> > mau.h20> > mau.h20> > mau.h20> > [0] Of course, some would say the same about ctwm... but this is our mau.h20> > playground, so we wouldn't stand for that :) mau.h20> > mau.h20> > mau.h20> mau.h20> In my installation rplay can't play any sounds. This is because rplayd mau.h20> isn't properly configured. When I run rplayd I get this error message: mau.h20> mau.h20> rplayd: bind: Address already in use mau.h20> mau.h20> I don't think this error is due to the firewall. Moreover, I have mau.h20> launched rplayd with debug option and only two more clues are given. mau.h20> That is : mau.h20> mau.h20> rplayd: running as group audio (29) mau.h20> rplayd: running as user nobody (65534) mau.h20> mau.h20> and if I change group and user the result is always the mau.h20> address-already-in-use error message. Well, yeah. The address in use is about the TCP port, not the group. 'man rplayd' might help. Usually, rplayd binds 5555/UDP and 5556/TCP, so if there's another program listening to those ports, rplayd will not be able to play. You need to figure out what other program is listening to those ports. Cheers, Richard -- Richard Levitte [email protected] http://richard.levitte.org/ "Life is a tremendous celebration - and I'm invited!" -- from a friend's blog, translated from Swedish
