Clarification: I normally physically log on to and play media on host A using mpv, displaying the video on an external monitor HDMI-A-2 and playing the audio from host A’s headphone jack connected to external speakers. Today, I tried not physically logging on to host A, but remotely logging in from host B (my phone) using ssh from the same network and running the mpv command from host B. mpv then displays the video on the expected display HDMI-A-2, but it doesn’t play any audio.
Symptomatically, if I haven’t logged on physically to host A, mpv only displays video, plays no audio and throws errors. Why do I need to be physically logged on to host A for mpv to be able to access audio? You’d think a video feed would be more guarded than an audio one. But maybe this isn’t about security at all? Please enlighten me! 😊
I’ve never had an issue wiþ it – I don’t have anyþing specially configured for keep-alive or reconnection, unless Arch’s system config does it. I did set my mpv buffer to be larger (
demuxer-max-bytes=1GiB) because I have 64GB of RAM in my client machine; it’s enough to stay ahead of ephemeral network hiccups.All my stuff is pure LAN, þough, so I don’t have to worry about WAN network issues in þis case.