Takes a long time caching on startup, and need to move volume control to hear anything

[Frank McNamara]

Binary package hint: mplayer

When, using Epiphony or Firefox, I visit the site sr.se and press the 'lyssna till webbradio' (=listen to web radio) link a new window opens and the mplayer seems to just sit there. As far as I can see it is caching the stream data, but this takes a very long time about 30 s.

When it then starts it is at very low volume, and I have to move the slider from almost 0.

If I right click, and try to adjust any of the preferences it crashes.

You probably already have this, but in case:

frank@frank-ubuntu:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu karmic (development branch)
Release: 9.10

frank@frank-ubuntu:~$ apt-cache policy mplayer
mplayer:
  Installed: 2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-1ubuntu9
  Candidate: 2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-1ubuntu10
  Version table:
     2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-1ubuntu10 0
        500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/multiverse Packages
 *** 2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-1ubuntu9 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Oct 16 08:17:36 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/mplayer
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: mplayer-nogui 2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-1ubuntu9
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.47-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
 libavcodec52 4:0.5+svn20090706-2ubuntu2
 libavcodec-extra-52 N/A
SourcePackage: mplayer
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64
UserConf:
 # Write your default config options here!

 [gnome-mplayer]
 msglevel=all=5
system: distro = Ubuntu, architecture = x86_64, kernel = 2.6.31-14-generic