Bug#702533: mplayer2: continue from pause not working

[Uoti Urpala]

This is most likely caused by misbehaving audio output. Especially
PulseAudio is known to have bugs which cause such problems. However,
you're using the mplayer2 version from experimental which has
workarounds for those PulseAudio issues and should work for most people
(unfortunately, Debian unstable still ships a version which is known to
cause problems for a significant portion of users).

Do you have PulseAudio active on your system? If you do, which audio
output API are you using in mplayer2 - ao_pulse or ao_alsa? In the
default Debian PulseAudio configuration, applications outputting sound
with the ALSA API are redirected to PulseAudio, and this redirection
mode is even more buggy than the "native" PulseAudio API (note that this
applies only to the default ALSA device; if you configure mplayer2 to
use an ALSA hardware device, that works fine and will not be
redirected).

In any case you can verify that the issue is caused by audio output by
using --nosound or --ao=null (the latter is closer to normal playback
with audio; it decodes audio but only "outputs" it with a dummy driver).