Bug#804349: mplayer2: pulseaudio output poor quality

[Michal Suchanek]

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

Hello,

I routed my audio through pulse so that I can make use of bluetooth
audio when connected.

When playing though pulse to OSS sound card I get all kind of cracking
and popping. This goes away when using the OSS card directly. I did not
notice any issue with xmms2 using pulse output.

I cannot use ALSA with the sound card because there is some floating
input causing noise and alsa does not provide the mute control to turn
it off.

I am not sure what is with the missing dependencies. The swscale3
library is definitely there:
$ dpkg -S /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libswscale.so.3
libswscale3:amd64: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libswscale.so.3

$ dpkg -s libswscale3:amd64
Package: libswscale3
Status: deinstall ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: libs
Installed-Size: 365
Maintainer: Debian Multimedia Maintainers
<pkg-multimedia-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Multi-Arch: same
Source: libav
Version: 6:11.4-1~deb8u1
Depends: libavutil54 (>= 6:11~beta1), libc6 (>= 2.14)
Pre-Depends: multiarch-support
Description: Libav video scaling library
 Libav is a complete, cross-platform solution to decode, encode, record,
  convert and stream audio and video.
   .
    This is the video software scaling library from Libav.
    Homepage: http://libav.org/

Any idea how can mplayer output sound through pulse reliably?

iirc I had some pulse problems with mplayer earlier whic I resolved by
removing pulse from my system. With BT audio pulse seems unavoidable,
unfortunately.

Thanks

Michal

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (990, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (171, 'unstable'), (151, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, armhf

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.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                      0.7.4-18
ii  libasound2                        1.0.29-1
ii  libass5                           0.13.0-1
ii  libavcodec56                      6:11.4-1~deb8u1
ii  libavformat56                     6:11.4-1~deb8u1
ii  libavresample2                    6:11.4-1~deb8u1
ii  libavutil54                       6:11.4-1~deb8u1
ii  libbluray1                        1:0.9.0-1
ii  libbs2b0                          3.1.0+dfsg-2.1
ii  libc6                             2.19-22
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                       5.0.3-1
ii  libenca0                          1.16-2
ii  libfaad2                          2.8.0~cvs20150510-1
ii  libgif4                           4.1.6-11
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]          11.0.4-1
ii  libjack-jackd2-0 [libjack-0.116]  1.9.10+20150825git1ed50c92~dfsg-1
ii  libjpeg62-turbo                   1:1.4.1-2
ii  liblcms2-2                        2.6-3+b3
ii  liblircclient0                    0.9.0~pre1-1.2
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
pn  libpostproc52                     <none>
ii  libpulse0                         7.0-1
ii  libquvi7                          0.4.1-3
ii  libsdl1.2debian                   1.2.15-11
ii  libsmbclient                      2:4.1.17+dfsg-4
ii  libspeex1                         1.2~rc1.2-1
pn  libswscale3                       <none>
ii  libtheora0                        1.1.1+dfsg.1-7
ii  libtinfo5                         6.0+20150810-1
ii  libvdpau1                         1.1.1-3
ii  libvorbis0a                       1.3.4-3
ii  libx11-6                          2:1.6.3-1
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                      2:1.3.4-1
ii  libxxf86vm1                       1:1.1.4-1
ii  zlib1g                            1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1

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