can't emulate /dev/dsp with padsp

[sean darcy]

On 01/26/2015 09:19 PM, sean darcy wrote:
> On Fedora 20, I'm trying to play a bunch of opus files with opusdec,
> which outputs to /dev/dsp. I tried padsp, but that doesn't work:
>
> padsp opusdec test.opus
> Decoding to 48000 Hz (2 channels)
> Cannot open /dev/dsp: Connection refused
>
> any help appreciated.
>
> sean
>

Also,

paplay test.wav
Connection failure: Connection refused
pa_context_connect() failed: Connection refused

And pulseaudio is running:

pacmd ls
Memory blocks currently allocated: 1, size: 63.9 KiB.
Memory blocks allocated during the whole lifetime: 40, size: 2.1 MiB.
Memory blocks imported from other processes: 0, size: 0 B.
Memory blocks exported to other processes: 0, size: 0 B.
Total sample cache size: 0 B.
Default sample spec: s16le 2ch 44100Hz
Default channel map: front-left,front-right
Default sink name: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_14.2.analog-stereo
Default source name: alsa_input.pci-0000_00_14.2.analog-stereo
Memory blocks of type POOL: 1 allocated/1 accumulated.
Memory blocks of type POOL_EXTERNAL: 0 allocated/0 accumulated.
Memory blocks of type APPENDED: 0 allocated/0 accumulated.
Memory blocks of type USER: 0 allocated/0 accumulated.
Memory blocks of type FIXED: 0 allocated/39 accumulated.
Memory blocks of type IMPORTED: 0 allocated/0 accumulated.
24 module(s) loaded.
.............

sean