Hello James, On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 10:19:22PM +0000, James Cowgill wrote: > On 23/02/17 19:28, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > > Package: mplayer > > Version: 2:1.3.0-6 > > Severity: normal > > > > When I play videos and switch to text consoles (via Ctrl-Alt-F1 for > > example) audio and video playback stops and is not resumed until I > > return to the X shell again. > > This isn't a bug, but an intentional design choice of pulseaudio / > systemd-logind. The permissions are setup in such a way that only the > "active" user ever has access to the audio hardware so when you switch > to another virtual terminal the old user can no longer play any audio.
I would consider this a poor design choice. However, this design is
inconsistent. If I use "-vo null", i.e. only play audio, then
everything works as I expect, i.e. the audio continues running.
To summarize:
*) With video: audio breaks down when switching to VT
*) Without video: audio continues when switching to VT
I believe there is a bug somewhere, although I hope in the future
audio will always continue playing.
Greetings
Helge
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