Hello David! Thanks for your reply. Le Sun, 09 May 2010 20:26:38 +0300, David Henningsson <launchpad.web at epost.diwic.se> a ?crit: > 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. The problem does not seem to be related with mine - the mplayer release in Ubuntu repos is much older and I get no errors from MPlayer. In the early days I did get this warning: bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111) ... but that was simply because of the bluez-alsa package. I found online info that removing the package solves this minor issue. I removed the package and, indeed, I no longer see the warning. (I do not use bluetooth, so the package removal does not affect my usage.) Other ALSA-based applications play sounds fine, for example Flash Player 10.0. Best regards, Mihai -- Mihai Sucan http://www.robodesign.ro
