Exec Mplayer

[mlissner]

I imagine this comes up a lot, but I can't quite get it to work, and searching has thus far come up dry. I'm trying to create a website front end for a jukebox, and I would like to use mplayer as my backend.

 

I thought I might be able to use exec to get this job done, passing it the mplayer command, but it's not working. I imagine this is probably a security measure (which is good), but I wonder what the best way to get it to work would be?

 

I am running this on an Ubuntu server, and have added www-data to the audio group (which helped, but not enough).

 

Thanks.

[trq]

You would be much better off using a player that doesn't try to invoke a gui.