On Tue, 2015-01-27 at 13:41 -0500, 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: Just a sidenote: isn't opus pretty recent codec? Why does opusdec use such an antiquated API for audio output? > Even pactl fails: > > pactl stat > Connection failure: Connection refused > pa_context_connect() failed: Connection refused You can see where pactl is trying to connect with PA_LOG=99 pactl stat Then you can compare it with the socket that the server is using. You can find the server socket location with this command: netstat -xlp | grep pulse There's most likely a mismatch between what pactl thinks the socket location should be and what it actually is. -- Tanu