Bug#775756: -ao pulse stopped producing audio; alsa and oss still work

[Josh Triplett]

Package: mplayer2
Version: 2.0-728-g2c378c7-4+b1
Severity: normal

A couple of days ago, "mplayer -ao pulse" (the default without -ao
specified) stopped producing output.  A running mplayer2 still shows up in
pulseaudio's "applications" list, but produces no audio.  Changing
volume and toggling mute have no effect.

"mplayer -ao alsa" still works, as does "padsp mplayer -ao oss".  paplay
works as well, as do other applications using pulseaudio.

I tried downgrading libav libraries to before the most recent upgrade a
couple of days ago, but that doesn't seem to have made a difference.

- Josh Triplett

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.18.0-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages mplayer2 depends on:
ii  liba52-0.7.4                      0.7.4-17
ii  libasound2                        1.0.28-1
ii  libass5                           0.10.2-3
ii  libavcodec56                      6:11.2-1
ii  libavformat56                     6:11.2-1
ii  libavresample2                    6:11.2-1
ii  libavutil54                       6:11.2-1
ii  libbluray1                        1:0.6.2-1
ii  libbs2b0                          3.1.0+dfsg-2.1
ii  libc6                             2.19-13
ii  libcaca0                          0.99.beta19-2
ii  libcdio-cdda1                     0.83-4.2
ii  libcdio-paranoia1                 0.83-4.2
ii  libcdio13                         0.83-4.2
ii  libdca0                           0.0.5-7
ii  libdirectfb-1.2-9                 1.2.10.0-5.1
ii  libdv4                            1.0.0-6
ii  libdvdread4                       5.0.0-1
ii  libenca0                          1.16-1
ii  libfaad2                          2.7-8
ii  libgif4                           4.1.6-11
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]          10.4.2-2
ii  libjack-jackd2-0 [libjack-0.116]  1.9.10+20140719git3eb0ae6a~dfsg-2
ii  libjpeg62-turbo                   1:1.3.1-11
ii  liblcms2-2                        2.6-3+b3
ii  liblircclient0                    0.9.0~pre1-1.1
ii  libmad0                           0.15.1b-8
ii  libmpg123-0                       1.20.1-2
ii  libogg0                           1.3.2-1
ii  libpng12-0                        1.2.50-2+b2
ii  libpostproc52                     6:0.git20120821-4
ii  libpulse0                         5.0-13
ii  libquvi7                          0.4.1-3
ii  libsdl1.2debian                   1.2.15-10+b1
ii  libsmbclient                      2:4.1.13+dfsg-4
ii  libspeex1                         1.2~rc1.2-1
ii  libswscale3                       6:11.2-1
ii  libtheora0                        1.1.1+dfsg.1-6
ii  libtinfo5                         5.9+20140913-1+b1
ii  libvdpau1                         0.8-3
ii  libvorbis0a                       1.3.4-2
ii  libx11-6                          2:1.6.2-3
ii  libxext6                          2:1.3.3-1
ii  libxinerama1                      2:1.1.3-1+b1
ii  libxss1                           1:1.2.2-1
ii  libxv1                            2:1.0.10-1+b1
ii  libxvidcore4                      2:1.3.3-1
ii  libxxf86vm1                       1:1.1.3-1+b1
ii  zlib1g                            1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1

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