gnome-mplayer fails to play audio

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gnome-mplayer does not play audio either as a plug-in or as standalone. Audacious works fine, as does browser pop-up players at somafm.com, di.fm, etc.

Release is Ubuntu 12.10 (Lubuntu really)

Gnomeplayer version is 1.0.6-1 0

What I expected: to hear music

What happened: nothing

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: gnome-mplayer 1.0.6-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-18.29-generic 3.5.7
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-18-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Dec 8 12:17:46 2012
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-10-31 (38 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release i386 (20121017.1)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: gnome-mplayer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Sebastian Ramacher (s-ramacher)]

Please run gnome-mplayer -v and attach the output. Have tried switchting the audio output?

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Tried switching audio from headset to internal speakers had no effect. Occassionally I receive an error message that gnome-mplayer unexpectedly failed.

Log from gnome-mplayer -v attached

[Sebastian Ramacher (s-ramacher)]

Sorry, I should have been a bit more precise. Start gnome-mplayer -v and then try to play a file. This should give you a lot of output - including output from mplayer. Especially the output from mplayer should be interesting for debugging this issue.

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Yeah, sorry about that. I'm a newbie with this whole bug reporting thing.

[Sebastian Ramacher (s-ramacher)]

Judging from the log that might be a mplayer bug. Could you try to run the mplayer command from the log without -af-add export=/tmp/mplayer-af_exportbmpucn:512 and -wid 0x2600025? That'd be

mplayer -channels 2 -quiet -slave -noidle -noconsolecontrols -nostop-xscreensaver -identify -volume 100 -softvol -msglevel all=5 -osdlevel 0 -delay 0.000000 -subdelay 0.000000 -subpos 0 -sub-fuzziness 0 -brightness 0 -contrast 0 -hue 0 -saturation 0 -nomsgcolor -nomsgmodule -nokeepaspect -ass -embeddedfonts -ass-font-scale 1.00 "/media/kitchen/6316-6AE5/Sasha Re Fa Si.MP3"

If that does work however, you might be affected by [1]. In that case it'd be great if you could try a file without spaces in its name.

[1] https://code.google.com/p/gnome-mplayer/issues/detail?id=618

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Sorry for the delay. Taking out the spaces didn't matter. Either way, the error message was the same, plus it said " IllegaL instruction (coredumped)" and the output wasn't piping to file, it was going to the console (BTW, I'm using xterm)

[Sebastian Ramacher (s-ramacher)]

Thanks for checking. Reassigning.

[xerostomus (xerostomus)]

May be useful:
GNOME MPlayer v1.0.6
gmtk v1.0.6
Running with GIO support
Using audio device: Default
opening DescribingthingsAdjectives0.mp3
stat_result = 0
is block 0
is character 0
is reg 1
is dir 0
playlist 0
embedded in window id 0x0
opening playlist
playlist detection = 0
adding file:///home/jerom/downloads/surface_languages/POKUS/DescribingthingsAdjectives0.mp3 to playlist (cancel = 0)
getting file metadata for /home/jerom/downloads/surface_languages/POKUS/DescribingthingsAdjectives0.mp3
mplayer -vo null -ao null -nomsgcolor -nomsgmodule -frames 0 -noidx -identify -nocache -noidle /home/jerom/downloads/surface_languages/POKUS/DescribingthingsAdjectives0.mp3
The volume on 'Default' is 1,000000
Using match: type='signal',interface='com.gnome.mplayer'
Using match: type='signal',interface='org.gnome.SettingsDaemon'
Using match: type='signal',interface='org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.MediaKeys'
Proxy connections and Command connected
playing - file:///home/jerom/downloads/surface_languages/POKUS/DescribingthingsAdjectives0.mp3
is playlist 0
Looking for cover art at /home/jerom/downloads/surface_languages/POKUS/cover.jpg
Looking for cover art at /home/jerom/downloads/surface_languages/POKUS/Folder.jpg
metadata->uri = file:///home/jerom/downloads/surface_languages/POKUS/DescribingthingsAdjectives0.mp3
cache_file=(null)
setting up mplayer
mplayer -channels 2 -af-add export=/tmp/mplayer-af_exportkeyedp:512 -quiet -slave -noidle -noconsolecontrols -nostop-xscreensaver -identify -volume 100 -softvol -msglevel all=5 -osdlevel 0 -delay 0,000000 -subdelay 0,000000 -subpos 0 -sub-fuzziness 0 -wid 0x4200025 -brightness 0 -contrast 0 -hue 0 -saturation 0 -alang Zuni,zun -slang Zuni,zun -nomsgcolor -nomsgmodule -nokeepaspect -ass -embeddedfonts -ass-font-scale 1,00 -ass-color ffffff00 /home/jerom/downloads/surface_languages/POKUS/DescribingthingsAdjectives0.mp3
ERROR: WARNING: gnome-keyring:: couldn't connect to: /run/user/jerom/keyring-yengar/pkcs11: No such file or directory
MPlayer2 UNKNOWN (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team
ERROR: mplayer: could not connect to socket

ERROR: mplayer: No such file or directory
Playing /home/jerom/downloads/surface_languages/POKUS/DescribingthingsAdjectives0.mp3.
ERROR: Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.
Detected file format: MPEG audio layer 2/3 (libavformat)
ID_AUDIO_ID=0
[lavf] stream 0: audio (mp3), -aid 0
Load subtitles in /home/jerom/downloads/surface_languages/POKUS/
ID_FILENAME=/home/jerom/downloads/surface_languages/POKUS/DescribingthingsAdjectives0.mp3
ID_DEMUXER=lavfpref
ID_AUDIO_FORMAT=85
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=133800
ERROR: Requested audio codec family [mpg123] (afm=mpg123) not available.
ID_AUDIO_RATE=44100
ERROR: Enable it at compilation.
ID_AUDIO_NCH=2
ID_START_TIME=0.00
ID_LENGTH=0.57
ID_SEEKABLE=1
ID_CHAPTERS=0
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, floatle, 133.8 kbit/4.74% (ratio: 16725->352800)
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=133800
ID_AUDIO_RATE=44100
ID_AUDIO_NCH=2
Selected audio codec: [ffmp3float] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG layer-3 audio)
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