Bug#781947: mplayer: Fails to honor the -alang option

[dave at 661.org]

Package: mplayer
Version: 2:1.0~rc4.dfsg1+svn34540-1+deb7u1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

When using Mplayer 2:1.0~rc4.dfsg (svn version r34540) as installed from 
wheezy-backports, it fails to correctly use the -alang command line 
option, at least with Bluray discs.  This has the effect of Mplayer 
picking some audio track that appears first, but probably isn't the one 
desired.  Faffing around with # to cycle through audio tracks is a bit 
annoying.

The latest svn version (r37386) does not have this problem

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.8
   APT prefers stable-updates
   APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages mplayer depends on:
ii  libaa1                    1.4p5-40
ii  libasound2                1.0.25-4
ii  libavcodec-extra-53       6:0.8.17-1
ii  libavformat53             6:0.8.17-1
ii  libavutil51               6:0.8.17-1
ii  libbluray1                1:0.2.2-1
ii  libc6                     2.13-38+deb7u8
ii  libcaca0                  0.99.beta18-1
ii  libcdparanoia0            3.10.2+debian-10.1
ii  libdca0                   0.0.5-5
ii  libdirectfb-1.2-9         1.2.10.0-5
ii  libdvdnav4                4.2.0+20120524-2
ii  libdvdread4               4.2.0+20120521-2
ii  libenca0                  1.13-4
ii  libesd0                   0.2.41-10+b1
ii  libfaad2                  2.7-8
ii  libfontconfig1            2.9.0-7.1
ii  libfreetype6              2.4.9-1.1+deb7u1
ii  libfribidi0               0.19.2-3
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.7.2-5
ii  libgif4                   4.1.6-10
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]  8.0.5-4+deb7u2
ii  libjack0 [libjack-0.116]  1:0.121.3+20120418git75e3e20b-2.1
ii  libjpeg8                  8d-1+deb7u1
ii  liblircclient0            0.9.0~pre1-1
ii  liblzo2-2                 2.06-1+deb7u1
ii  libmp3lame0               3.99.5+repack1-3
ii  libmpeg2-4                0.4.1-3
ii  libncurses5               5.9-10
ii  libogg0                   1.3.0-4
ii  libopenal1                1:1.14-4
ii  libpng12-0                1.2.49-1
ii  libpostproc52             6:0.git20120821-4~bpo70+1
ii  libpulse0                 2.0-6.1
ii  libsdl1.2debian           1.2.15-5
ii  libsmbclient              2:3.6.6-6+deb7u5
ii  libspeex1                 1.2~rc1-7
ii  libstdc++6                4.7.2-5
ii  libsvga1                  1:1.4.3-33
ii  libswscale2               6:10.1-1~bpo70+1
ii  libtheora0                1.1.1+dfsg.1-3.1
ii  libtinfo5                 5.9-10
ii  libvdpau1                 0.4.1-7
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.5.0-1+deb7u1
ii  libx264-123               2:0.123.2189+git35cf912-1
ii  libxext6                  2:1.3.1-2+deb7u1
ii  libxinerama1              2:1.1.2-1+deb7u1
ii  libxv1                    2:1.0.7-1+deb7u1
ii  libxvidcore4              2:1.3.2-9
ii  libxvmc1                  2:1.0.7-1+deb7u2
ii  libxxf86dga1              2:1.1.3-2+deb7u1
ii  libxxf86vm1               1:1.1.2-1+deb7u1
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.7.dfsg-13

mplayer recommends no packages.

Versions of packages mplayer suggests:
ii  bzip2                              1.0.6-4
ii  fontconfig                         2.9.0-7.1
ii  fonts-freefont-ttf [ttf-freefont]  20120503-1
pn  mplayer-doc                        <none>
pn  netselect | fping                  <none>
ii  ttf-freefont                       20120503-1

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf

-- no debconf information