I also seem to be having this problem on Xubuntu Edgy. However, I do not get reliable sound when booting from a cold start. On some cold boots it works, sometimes it does not. However, restarting does seem to consistently prevent sound from playing with mplayer.
The strange thing is, I have sound in Ekiga (apparently always), as well as in in Flash (sometimes). ** Attachment added: "generated with "mplayer file.mov > /tmp/mplayer_output.txt"" http://librarian.launchpad.net/5563969/mplayer_output.txt -- Sound doesn't work after restart, only works on cold boot https://launchpad.net/bugs/57141 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs