if you just start mplayer without any options, it shouldn't load any audio output modules and therefore shouldn't be able to interfere with your audio drivers. are you absolutely sure that this simple invocation breaks audio on your system?
We need the mplayer output with the exact mplayer invocation that causes the described symptom! -- opening mplayer stops sound https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/575368 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
