Hi, as I predicted, simply rebuilding mplayer allows me to play ogg vorbis again.
$ mplayer -ao null /usr/share/games/freeciv/stdsounds/Splash.ogg MPlayer 1.0rc4-4.6.1 (C) 2000-2010 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 /usr/share/games/freeciv/stdsounds/Splash.ogg. libavformat file format detected. [lavf] stream 0: audio (vorbis), -aid 0 ========================================================================== Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders AUDIO: 16000 Hz, 1 ch, s16le, 48.0 kbit/18.75% (ratio: 6000->32000) Selected audio codec: [ffvorbis] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg Vorbis) ========================================================================== AO: [null] 16000Hz 1ch s16le (2 bytes per sample) Video: no video Starting playback... Audio output truncated at end. 1.1% A: 1.8 (01.7) of 1.8 (01.7) 1.1% Exiting... (End of file) Sources and binaries are in http://lindi.iki.fi/lindi/mplayer/ -Timo _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers