[MPlayer-users] mplayer fails to resume playback after pause

[Mac Smith]

On 09-May-2012, at 11:27 AM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:

> Mac Smith <macsmith.us <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> I am using the current svn release, and when i pause the video, 
>> it fails to resume playback if i use -ao alsa,
> 
> Command line and complete, uncut console output missing.
> 
> 

$ mplayer -ao alsa -vo vdpau -vc ffmpeg12vdpau http://172.16.0.7/movies/upintheair.mpg
MPlayer SVN-r34894-4.4.3 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.
Loading extension-related profile 'extension.mpg'

Playing http://172.16.0.7/movies/upintheair.mpg.
Connecting to server 172.16.0.7[172.16.0.7]: 80...

Cache size set to 20000 KBytes
Cache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)   

libavformat version 54.4.100 (internal)
TS file format detected.
VIDEO MPEG2(pid=33) AUDIO MPA(pid=36) NO SUBS (yet)!  PROGRAM N. 2
VIDEO:  MPEG2  720x576  (aspect 3)  25.000 fps  4000.0 kbps (500.0 kbyte/s)
==========================================================================
Forced video codec: ffmpeg12vdpau
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
libavcodec version 54.21.100 (internal)
Selected video codec: [ffmpeg12vdpau] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-1/2 (VDPAU))
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Requested audio codec family [mpg123] (afm=mpg123) not available.
Enable it at compilation.
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, floatle, 192.0 kbit/6.25% (ratio: 24000->384000)
Selected audio codec: [ffmp2float] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG layer-1 and layer-2 audio)
==========================================================================
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch floatle (4 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
[VD_FFMPEG] Trying pixfmt=0.
[vdpau] Failed creating VDPAU decoder: invalid/unsupported VdpDecoderProfile value
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [vdpau] 720x576 => 1024x576 MPEG2 VDPAU acceleration 
[VD_FFMPEG] XVMC-accelerated MPEG-2.
A:   8.8 V:   8.7 A-V:  0.000 ct: -0.455 198/198  4% 13%  1.4% 9 0 71% 
A:   9.6 V:   9.6 A-V:  0.001 ct: -0.456 220/220  4% 12%  1.3% 9 0 68% 
A:  10.4 V:  10.3 A-V:  0.001 ct: -0.456 238/238  4% 12%  1.3% 9 0 66% 
  =====  PAUSE  =====

>> using pulse it works fine. the following wiki says mplayer 
>> doesnt works fine with alsa, is there a fix for it.
> 
> MPlayer doesn't work fine with pulse, there is no known fix for it.
> 

I am confused, mplayer works fine with alsa or pulse??