Am 10.05.2010 21:36, schrieb Reimar D?ffinger: > Simple issue simple solution: Ubuntu as usual completely skipped any and all > quality checks (though in this case they are not the only ones) and shippes > a completely broken OpenAL version which does ALSA stuff whenever the library > gets loaded (whoever came up with this deserves to be banned from any and all > software development for at least a year). > If PulseAudio is the only thing that this breaks you're lucky. > Solutions: > 1) Remove OpenAL, completely and compile your own MPlayer > 2) Get a non-broken OpenAL package from somewhere and use that instead > 3) Use some kind of wrapper library that redirects ALSA accesses or do some > other thing that makes sure OpenAL can't actually do anything bad to your > soundcard via ALSA. > Hehehe. Thanks for pointing out. Marcus