mp3lib/mad/ffmpeg can be chosen at runtime, just look at : mplayer -ac help
Also, maybe it would be nicer if bugs were reported upstream instead of only being workarounded : http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html -- [EDGY] Regression: broken audio playing certain movies https://launchpad.net/bugs/52729 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs