Bug#673820: The bug is fixed upstream.

[Frank]

On 01/21/2013 02:51 PM, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 7:18 AM, Frank <eular.frank at gmail.com> wrote:
>> http://devel.mplayer2.org/ticket/166
>> It's said that the bug is fixed now; therefore, I think it's time for
>> maintainer to apply the patch.
> I have now updated the mplayer2 package in experimental. In my test
> chroot, I didn't notice any slowdown, but mplayer is not able to
> connect to my pulseaudio daemon outside the chroot. I'm therefore
> unable to verify if this has been fixed or not.
>
> Can you please test and report back? Thanks!
>
>
I feel sorry that it might be postponed because now I'm rather busy, but 
if I have sometime, I think I'll have a try.
It seems that I should do the experiment on some experimental machine, 
say virtual machine, or build up a temporary workspace and chroot.

Now I set

[default]
ao=alsa

temporarily in ~/.mplayer/config to avoid the issue.

Sincerely.