On 2010-05-09 13:06, Mihai Sucan wrote: > The problem is with mplayer. I cannot play *any* sound with it, and worse, > it causes PulseAudio to go "bonkers". Once I start mplayer, I cannot hear > any sound, from any application. > > I tested mplayer from the default Ubuntu repositories [1] and a much newer > build from the RVM Ubuntu PPA repository [2] (the author of SMPlayer, if I > am not mistaken). Both behave quite much the same. I'm not sure, but this could be worth a look: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=580113 ...to see if that is what you have encountered as well, or if it is related. // David
