Bug#643791: pulseaudio: Breaks mplayer sound output on second sound device

[Christian Ohm]

Package: pulseaudio
Version: 0.9.23-1
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks unrelated software

Dear Maintainer,

I have two sound devices, both using alsa directly, and pulseaudio
installed for a bluetooth headset. When mplayer is configured to use the
second one with "ao=alsa:device=default=1" in its config, after the
update to 1.0-3 it fails with

[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: conf.c:4630:(snd_config_expand) Unknown parameters 1
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default:1
[AO_ALSA] Playback open error: Invalid argument
Failed to initialize audio driver 'alsa:device=default=1'
Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound.
Audio: no sound

Using just "ao=alsa" still works, though obviously on the first device.
Just reverting back to pulseaudio 0.9.23-1 (or uninstalling pulseaudio
completely) makes the second sound device work again.


Best regards,
Christian Ohm


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages pulseaudio depends on:
ii  adduser         3.113     
ii  consolekit      0.4.5-1   
ii  libasound2      1.0.24.1-4
ii  libc6           2.13-21   
ii  libcap2         1:2.22-1  
ii  libdbus-1-3     1.4.16-1  
ii  libgdbm3        1.8.3-10  
ii  libice6         2:1.0.7-2 
ii  libltdl7        2.4-4     
ii  libpulse0       0.9.23-1  
ii  libsamplerate0  0.1.8-1   
ii  libsm6          2:1.2.0-2 
ii  libsndfile1     1.0.25-3  
ii  libspeexdsp1    1.2~rc1-1 
ii  libudev0        172-1     
ii  libx11-6        2:1.4.4-2 
ii  libx11-xcb1     2:1.4.4-2 
ii  libxcb1         1.7-3     
ii  libxtst6        2:1.2.0-3 
ii  lsb-base        3.2-28    
ii  udev            172-1     

Versions of packages pulseaudio recommends:
pn  gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio  <none>     
pn  libasound2-plugins        1.0.24-2+b1
pn  pulseaudio-esound-compat  <none>     
pn  pulseaudio-module-x11     <none>     

Versions of packages pulseaudio suggests:
pn  paman             <none>  
pn  paprefs           <none>  
pn  pavucontrol       0.99.2-1
pn  pavumeter         <none>  
pn  pulseaudio-utils  0.9.23-1
pn  rtkit             <none>  

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