05-10-2019, 11:44 PM
So a bit ago I decided that I wanted my desktop to play the old Ubuntu Startup sound on startup. I created a script to do so and had it run on startup. The thing is in order to accomplish this I used the cvlc command to actually play the sound. The only problem is that now if I want to view a video on my hard drive or listen to music, I have to first kill the vlc process that was still running from the startup script (for those curious, I do have a "&" after the cvlc command and then have the exit command at the end of the script.)
On my raspberry pi I just use omxplayer, but after a bit of research I learned that I cannot get omxplayer to work on the desktop without compiling from source, something I don't really want to do, because it has no i386 or amd64 ports. I also hunted around and found cmus, but I want a media player where I can just call it from my startup script and not have to worry about it. For this, what would you recommend?
On my raspberry pi I just use omxplayer, but after a bit of research I learned that I cannot get omxplayer to work on the desktop without compiling from source, something I don't really want to do, because it has no i386 or amd64 ports. I also hunted around and found cmus, but I want a media player where I can just call it from my startup script and not have to worry about it. For this, what would you recommend?
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- Michael Scott (from The Office)
