[pulseaudio-discuss] Problems with mplayer in Ubuntu 10.04

[David Henningsson]

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