Sam Morris ha scritto:
> Package: mplayer
> Version: 1.0~rc2-7
> Severity: important
> 
> mplayer currently defaults to using OSS for audio output. This breaks
> sound for any other programs running on the same computer in the most
> common configuration of system that we see today (a simple sound card
> without hardware mixing capability).


I have a different opinion: I think that the default should be to use
polypaudio ; this is what Ubuntu will do in the next release 8.04

> If mplayer were to use ALSA by default, instead its audio would be
> transparently mixed together with that of any other programs by ALSA's
> dmix facility.

... if dmix is enabled...
but last time I checked , dmix is not enable by default in Debian

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