Re: How to make Playbin plugin work when running rygel as a system service

[Jens Georg <mail jensge org>]

On Di, 2013-11-05 at 10:01 +0200, Mehmet Giritli wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running rygel as a systemd service with user root. Things are
> running fine except I can not use playbin plugin in this case (trying to
> play some media on the computer via rygel). I see these:
>
> Nov  5 09:54:44 mordor rygel[1537]: ** (rygel:1537): WARNING **:
> rygel-playbin-player.vala:438: Error from GStreamer element playbin0:
> Cancelled (gstsouphttpsrc.c(879): gst_soup_http_src_finished_cb
> (): /GstPlayBin:playbin0/GstURIDecodeBin:uridecodebin0/GstSoupHTTPSrc:source:
> Nov  5 09:54:44 mordor rygel[1537]: libsoup status code 1)
> Nov  5 09:54:44 mordor rygel[1537]: ** (rygel:1537): WARNING **:
> rygel-playbin-player.vala:442: Going to STOPPED state

Works fine here (Debian sid/experimental), Rygel is running as a special
user started via systemd.

This looks more like the peer being a bit picky there. Other sessions
might block audio output and such, though.

> I think the reason for it is that I am running rygel as an out of
> session service, right? It was working fine when I was running it within
> gnome sessions. 
>
> So my question is, is there a way I can still use playbin plugin when
> running rygel as a system service as root and there is a session of
> some/any other user running on the computer and the content is played in
> that session even tough rygel is not running with that session?