new mplayer gives garbage audio output

[Paulus]

Binary package hint: mplayer

After yesterday's update from 0.99+1.0pre8-0ubuntu8 to 1.0~rc1-0ubuntu3, playing video files gives me garbage audio output, independ from audio output plugin (-ao). You can hear the music, but it's distorted and weird.

Couldn't find the previous feisty version online. Going back to edgy's mplayer package fixes it.

[Grégoire Cachet (greg-zwiffer)]

Same problem here, I'm running 1.0~rc1-0ubuntu3 with Feisty up-to-date.

I get an error when I'm trying to watch a video:

  Trying to force audio codec driver family libmad...
  Requested audio codec family [mad] (afm=libmad) not available.
  Enable it at compilation.

I just get noise out of the speakers.

It was working fine with the 0.99+1.0pre8-0ubuntu8 version.

Maybe something is missing in the package?

[Paulus (donmatteo)]

As a hint, compiling the current tarball from mplayerhq, you get a package with exactly the same problem. (method: sudo apt-get build-dep mplayer; fakeroot debian/binary)

So most likely the devil is in the libaries (maybe libmad).

[William Grant (wgrant)]

The problem seems to be that mp3lib does strange things on some systems. The message about libmad is harmless: libmad isn't enabled in the Ubuntu builds.