After one of the recent updates, the mplayer configuration file has been changed accordingly. I think the bug can be closed.
grep pulse /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf # Use pulse, then alsa, then SDL video with the aalib subdriver by default. ao=pulse,alsa,sdl:aalib apt-cache policy mplayer-nogui mplayer-nogui: Installed: 2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-1ubuntu8 Candidate: 2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-1ubuntu8 Version table: *** 2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-1ubuntu8 0 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/multiverse Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status ** Changed in: mplayer (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Released -- mplayer defaults to oss instead of pulse in Karmic https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/429018 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