[Mplayer-advusers] "noisy/distorted" sound with MPlayer(CVS)+mpeg+SuSE9.0

[Corey Hickey]

Hermann Himmelbauer wrote:
> 
> Yes!
> Both "-ac mad" and "-ac ffmp2" produce a correct sound output!
> 
> Is there perhaps a way to automatically tell mplayer not to use the default 
> "mp3" codec and instead "ffmp2" or "mad"?
> 

Yes. Put the following line into your mplayer config file:
ac=-mp3,

That comma at the end is important; it means, "try the other codecs".
On the command line, it would be "mplayer -ac -mp3,".

...better would be to figure out why your distro has (or flushes out) a
bug somewhere. I really have no idea, aside from the possibilities Rich
and Tobias suggested.

-Corey