On Sun, 2009-12-20 at 09:55 -0500, Robert Henney wrote: > the latest svn appears to have an alsa issue when playing more than one > file on some particular files I have. it's reproducible too. > > the audio will consistently fail to initialize for the second video file, > though if the files are reversed or played separately or -ao oss is used > then the problem does not occur. > > mplayer -ao alsa "[SpoonSubs]_Sketchbook_full_color's_02_[E80DF436].mkv" \ > "[SpoonSubs]_Sketchbook_full_color's_03_[FFE2F973].mkv" > > results in: > Building audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/s16le -> 0Hz/0ch/??... > [AO_ALSA] Unable to set buffer time near: Invalid argument > Failed to initialize audio driver 'alsa' > > the sample files are in http://rut.org/sketch/ Do you still get this error with the current git repo (git://repo.or.cz/mplayer-build.git)? I fixed some issues that could perhaps cause this, but as I can't reproduce your problem on my machine I don't know whether those were the ones you hit.