Bug#855953: mplayer: Stops playing when switching to text consoles

[James Cowgill]

Hi,

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.

James

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