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

[Mehmet Giritli <mgiritli giritli eu>]

On Thu, 2013-11-07 at 21:56 +0100, Jens Georg wrote:
> 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.

So, you are saying that if I run rygel via systemd with user "root", and
I have a session open for some other user "jens", then I should be
enable to play media on that computer using playbin plugin? And it will
be played in whoever's session is open?

> > 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?