Gnome-mplayer breaks pulseaudio

[alexduf]

Binary package hint: gnome-mplayer

When launching gnome-mplayer on a clean install of ubuntu 10.04 64bit, it breaks pulseaudio. I need to kill pulseaudio to make it work again.

I have changed the output driver in the gnome-mplayer preference menu, but it does not seems to change anything. Maybe gnome-mplayer is doing nasty things with alsa ?

when I launch gnome-pulse audio from a terminal, i do not get any error in standard output.

I found a more detailed description here, I think it is the same problem : http://www.pubbs.net/201005/mplayer/16588-mplayer-users-problems-with-mplayer-and-pulseaudio-on-ubuntu-1004.html

If i can launch any command to help, please, let me know.

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

Looks like an mplayer problem. Can you launch mplayer standalone and see if you have the same problem?

[alexduf (dufournetalexandre)]

That's true, if I launch mplayer all alone, I have the same probleme.
I copy-paste my command line, even if I don't see anything wrong :

alex@calvin:~/Musique$ mplayer 012_bonobo_blacksands.mp3
MPlayer SVN-r1.0~rc3+svn20090426-4.4.3 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing 012_bonobo_blacksands.mp3.
Audio only file format detected.
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/9.07% (ratio: 16000->176400)
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
==========================================================================
AO: [pulse] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
Starting playback...
A: 31.0 (31.0) of 409.0 (06:49.0) 0.6%

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

I just think the mplayer version in the repo is way too old.

[alexduf (dufournetalexandre)]

i tried a more recent version found here : https://launchpad.net/~rvm/+archive/mplayer
still doesn't work.

I might be wrong, but I think I'm not the only one having this pulse/alsa problem. So if the version is too old, noone is able to use it ? If true why this package is still available ?

MPlayer SVN-r31042-Ubuntu-RVM (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
CPU vendor name: GenuineIntel max cpuid level: 10
CPU: Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU E5200 @ 2.50GHz (Family: 6, Model: 23, Stepping: 6)
extended cpuid-level: 8
extended cache-info: 134242368
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNowExt: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 SSSE3: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
get_path('codecs.conf') -> '/home/alex/.mplayer/codecs.conf'
Reading /home/alex/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/home/alex/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Using built-in default codecs.conf.