bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)

[sunnyengineeer]

Hello,
Today I upgraded from 8.10 to 10.04..7 then I installed mplayer thru terminal..
But the mplayer is not showing in the menu under Applications>Sound & Video..
& if I try to run it from terminal..it shows error:-

bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)

than nothing appears..except some commands realted to mplayer...like opening the file etc..

Somebody plz help me out..

Thnx
Sunny Sharma

[mc4man]

But the mplayer is not showing in the menu under Applications>Sound & Video..

That's because the lucid mplayer package is command line only.

If you wish a gui then install a frontend such as smplayer and or gnome-mplayer.

(medibuntu has a mplayer package for lucid that is the old gmplayer frontend - though I'd think you'll find the above more suitable

.it shows error:-

bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)

Can be ignored - all svn. builds of mplayer on lucid show that, personally don't have a clue - bt = bluetooth...?

than nothing appears..except some commands realted to mplayer...like opening the file etc..

Post the complete terminal output inc. command in a quote box. (though do try a frontend first

[andrew.46]

Hi Sunny,

bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)

There was some discussion on this the other day on #mplayer. Does your computer have some bluetooth packages installed but no actual bluetooth devices operating or available? Have a search on Synaptic...

Andrew

[mc4man]

Does your computer have some bluetooth packages installed ...

There are quite a number of bluetooth related packages installed in lucid whether you have bluetooth devices or not or have them disabled.

(there is only 1 -dev package

I remember trying quite some time ago removing all that where possible though a couple are dependencies of packages one probably doesn't want to remove.
(libbluetooth3 was the main one that would be difficult to remove

The git mplayer does not show this...

Edit:
managed to get rid of it..., now to see what was causing

doug@doug-desktop:~/mplayer$ ./mplayer '/home/doug/Desktop/01 - Sympathy For The Devil.m4a'
MPlayer SVN-r30856-4.4.3 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory.

Playing /home/doug/Desktop/01 - Sympathy For The Devil.m4a.

[mc4man]

The messages are caused by the bluez-alsa package. It has nothing to do with the build - uninstall that package and the messages go away, re-install and they return.

[andrew.46]

Hi mc4man,

The messages are caused by the bluez-alsa package. It has nothing to do with the build - uninstall that package and the messages go away, re-install and they return.

I think you have solved one of the more irritating error messages under Lucid .

Andrew

[sunnyengineeer]

Thnkyou guys for solving my problem,Now my problem is gone after I reinstalled Mplayer & now im using SMplayer,So no problem in either Mplayer or SMplayer....

Thanx once again
Sunny Sharma

[mc4man]

solved one of the more irritating error messages under Lucid

maybe... but tonight this one takes the cake - relating to the braero, copy cd deal
And this is on a straight up, no mods lucid.

After installing the libs it wanted and having to do a reboot for them to be recognized (another karmic, lucid 'issue'), this is what shows up...
(possibly 'irritating' is an understatement

[bdd4bdd4]

SOLVED: I lost sound in lucid 10.04. I removed bluetooth audio within synaptic and got it back.
THANKS! bdd4bdd4 - 9-22-10

There are quite a number of bluetooth related packages installed in lucid whether you have bluetooth devices or not or have them disabled.

(there is only 1 -dev package

I remember trying quite some time ago removing all that where possible though a couple are dependencies of packages one probably doesn't want to remove.
(libbluetooth3 was the main one that would be difficult to remove

The git mplayer does not show this...

Edit:
managed to get rid of it..., now to see what was causing

doug@doug-desktop:~/mplayer$ ./mplayer '/home/doug/Desktop/01 - Sympathy For The Devil.m4a'
MPlayer SVN-r30856-4.4.3 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory.

Playing /home/doug/Desktop/01 - Sympathy For The Devil.m4a.

[georgezenios]

magic solution, this has bugged me for ages noe problem solved not getting this error meesage with SKYPE after removing bluettoth in synaptic.