Le Tue, 11 May 2010 14:10:57 +0300, Daniel Chen <seven.steps at gmail.com> a ?crit: > 'Twas brillig, and Daniel Chen at 10/05/10 21:20 did gyre and gimble: >>> According to >>> http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/2010-May/079934.html >>> this symptom is caused by the outdated version of openal-soft shipped >>> in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. > > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> > wrote: >> Just out of curiosity, did he refer the 1.12.854 version? Am I right in >> saying that the version which is hideously broken is the 1.11.753? > > It appears that he didn't mention a specific version at all, only that > Ubuntu "shippes a completely broken OpenAL version" -- which, > presuming that 10.04 LTS is in fact the discussed release, can only > point to 1.11753. The only newer release that I can see is 1.12.854. > > I'm in complete agreement that the 1.12.854 release notes don't seem > to mention any fix of hideous brokenness. From the 1.12.854 release notes: * Improved library load time by delaying backend device probing until needed. It seems exactly what I reported: mplayer (with openal) probes backend devices when it's not needed. Hence, I am quite very much interested to test this release. Best regards, Mihai -- Mihai Sucan http://www.robodesign.ro