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

[Mac Smith]

On 11-May-2012, at 11:42 PM, Reimar Döffinger wrote:

> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 02:26:33PM +0530, Mac Smith wrote:
>> 
>> On 11-May-2012, at 2:17 PM, Tom Evans wrote:
>> 
>>> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 7:13 AM, Mac Smith <macsmith.us at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On 09-May-2012, at 5:55 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On 05/09/2012 12:57 AM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
>>>>> [snip]
>>>>>> MPlayer doesn't work fine with pulse, there is no known fix for it.
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> What part doesn't work well?  Some exotic multichannel mode?
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> well in my case mplayer is not good with alsa, kindly suggest any fix...
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> I suggest that you first describe the issue with alsa. "is not good"
>>> or "doesn't work fine" are not descriptions of issues.
>>> 
>>> Cheers
>>> 
>>> Tom
>> 
>> issue is clearly described,
>> 
>> it fails to resume playback if i use "-ao alsa", but if I use "-ao pulse" it works fine. the following wiki says mplayer doesnt works fine with alsa, is there a fix for it.
>> 
>> 
>> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MPlayer#.28S.29mplayer_fails_to_resume_playback_after_pause
> 
> This sounds like the issue might be e.g. pulseaudio grabbing the ALSA
> device while MPlayer is paused, thus MPlayer can't resume.
> So if you feel like risking it, disabling/removing pulseaudio might be
> an obvious first try.
> Otherwise as to PulseAudio issues: It quite often is exactly that one
> that causes hangs after pause, and those have actually been confirmed
> as pulseaudio bugs. For some reason they seem re-appear again and again,
> which I can't really understand.
> The newest pulseaudio bug that seems to have been recently introduced
> (I've seen it come up only recently on Debian unstable) is that it will
> grossly misreport the audio delay/available buffer space, leading to the
> "audio device stuck" printout and in some cases even to short audio
> stutters.

I removed pulseaudio, rebooted it, and played again with "-ao alsa", now there is no sound, and the issue of resume after pause is also not there. But no sound. If i dont use "-ao alsa" option it uses oss, I am still not able to understand where the bug is,