Bug#585555: Please don't set the default audio output in /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf

[Pascal Gervais]

Package: mplayer
Version: 2:1.0~rc3+svn20100502-3
Severity: normal

Hi

Since the update from version 2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426 to version
2:1.0~rc3+svn20100502 in May 2010, mplayer takes six to seven seconds
before starting to play any video and audio, trying to find pulseaudio
on a system where pulseaudio is not installed.

So, can you please let ao=pulse,alsa,sdl:aalib commented in
/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf and add in README.Debian that pulseaudio
users should use ao=pulse in ~/.mplayer/config or specify the '-ao
pulse' option on their command line.

Thanks



-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'stable'), (90, 'unstable'), (1,
'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages mplayer depends on:
ii  libaa1                  1.4p5-38
ii  libasound2              1.0.22-2
ii  libaudio2               1.9.2-3
ii  libavcodec52            4:0.5.1-3
ii  libavformat52           4:0.5.1-3
ii  libavutil49             4:0.5.1-3
ii  libc6                   2.11.1-2
ii  libcaca0                0.99.beta17-1
ii  libcdparanoia0          3.10.2+debian-9
ii  libdirectfb-1.2-9       1.2.10.0-3
ii  libdvdread4             4.1.3-9
ii  libenca0                1.13-1
ii  libesd0                 0.2.41-7
ii  libfontconfig1          2.8.0-2.1
ii  libfreetype6            2.3.11-1
ii  libfribidi0             0.19.2-1
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.4.4-1
ii  libgif4                 4.1.6-9
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1 7.7.1-2
ii  libjack0                1.9.5~dfsg-13
ii  libjpeg62               6b-16.1
ii  liblircclient0          0.8.3-5
ii  liblzo2-2               2.03-2
ii  libncurses5             5.7+20100313-2
ii  libogg0                 1.2.0~dfsg-1
ii  libopenal1              1:1.12.854-2
ii  libpng12-0              1.2.43-1
ii  libpostproc51           4:0.5.1-3
ii  libpulse0               0.9.21-1
ii  libsdl1.2debian         1.2.14-6
ii  libsmbclient            2:3.4.8~dfsg-1
ii  libspeex1               1.2~rc1-1
ii  libstdc++6              4.4.4-1
ii  libsvga1                1:1.4.3-29
ii  libswscale0             4:0.5.1-3
ii  libtheora0              1.1.1+dfsg.1-3
ii  libx11-6                2:1.3.3-3
ii  libxext6                2:1.1.1-3
ii  libxinerama1            2:1.1-3
ii  libxt6                  1:1.0.7-1
ii  libxv1                  2:1.0.5-1
ii  libxvmc1                2:1.0.5-1
ii  libxxf86dga1            2:1.1.1-2
ii  libxxf86vm1             1:1.1.0-2
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3

mplayer recommends no packages.

Versions of packages mplayer suggests:
ii  bzip2                         1.0.5-4
ii  fontconfig                    2.8.0-2.1
pn  mplayer-doc                   <none>
pn  netselect | fping             <none>
pn  ttf-freefont                  <none>

-- no debconf information

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Pascal