I'm having a sound problem with mplayer on a brand new F12 installation. When I play any file mplayer always starts with the volume at 100%. The volume does work, I can lower it during the playback, but it's deafening upon start up. I haven't disabled yet pulseaudio and it may very well be a pulseaudio problem, but where do I start looking? This is what mplayer says when it starts: mplayer MVI_3695.AVI MPlayer SVN-r29800-4.4.2 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team mplayer: could not connect to socket mplayer: No such file or directory Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control. Playing MVI_3695.AVI. AVI file format detected. [aviheader] Video stream found, -vid 0 [aviheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1 VIDEO: [MJPG] 320x240 24bpp 15.000 fps 2320.1 kbps (283.2 kbyte/s) Clip info: Digitization Time: Sun Jun 24 19:18:58 2007 Software: CanonMVI01 Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [vdpau] Error when calling vdp_device_create_x11: 1 ========================================================================== Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family Unsupported PixelFormat -1 Selected video codec: [ffmjpeg] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MJPEG) ========================================================================== ========================================================================== Opening audio decoder: [pcm] Uncompressed PCM audio decoder AUDIO: 11024 Hz, 1 ch, u8, 88.2 kbit/100.00% (ratio: 11024->11024) Selected audio codec: [pcm] afm: pcm (Uncompressed PCM) ========================================================================== AO: [pulse] 11024Hz 1ch u8 (1 bytes per sample) Starting playback... Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale... Opening video filter: [scale] Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied. SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 4 SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 4 SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 1 SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 9 -> 8 [swscaler @ 0xbbbb60]BICUBIC scaler, from yuv422p to yuv420p using MMX2 [swscaler @ 0xbbbb60]using 4-tap MMX scaler for horizontal luminance scaling [swscaler @ 0xbbbb60]using 4-tap MMX scaler for horizontal chrominance scaling [swscaler @ 0xbbbb60]using 1-tap MMX "scaler" for vertical scaling (YV12 like) [swscaler @ 0xbbbb60]320x240 -> 320x240 VO: [xv] 320x240 => 320x240 Planar YV12 A: 8.3 V: 8.3 A-V: 0.000 ct: -0.000 126/126 2% 1% 0.0% 0 0 Exiting... (Quit)