'Twas brillig, and Markus Rechberger at 27/11/09 05:54 did gyre and gimble: > right now I'm experiencing that mplayer just mutes after a few > seconds, when I start up pavucontrol audio starts to work again. > See this is what I mean when writing about that Pulseaudio does not > work correctly with most distributions (Ubuntu is known to have > issues, although pulseaudio is configured to run per user, no other > process is accessing pulseaudio, nothing is bypassing pulseaudio > either here). mplayer -ao alsa? or mplayer -ao pulse? I suspect the former as we're currently debugging a problem relating to the alsa-pulse plugin shipped in alsa-plugins package. So this is in the process of being solved. Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]