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General => Users => Topic started by: rchamp on March 21, 2011, 05:31:12 am
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Hey everyone!
Just today i wanted to show someone a video, so I pulled up KDE desktop, copied over the video clip and low and behold, I got video fine, but got a message on both mplayer and vlc saying 'cannot initialize audio drivers'. Is there something disabled?
I also tried opening an mp3 that I have stored on the pc, and amarok threw me an error too.
Is this a known issue?
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wanted to also note that playing my mp3s through LMCE works flawlessy, BTW. standard audio in LMCE (movies, wizard, etc) works fine as well.
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become root and start the applications you want from it. sudo su and you have it.
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ahh ok. that's strange. is it because of the pluto integration?
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Add your username to the 'audio' group in /etc/group. Reboot the machine if you have already started KDE. You should have full audio capabilities now.
J.
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Will try that when I get back to the house. Many thanks
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There is a command which can do this for you:
$ sudo usermod -a -G audio user_name
will add 'user_name' to the group 'audio'. Let us know how it goes.
J.