[MPlayer-users] Cannot resume mplayer after pausing

[Reimar Döffinger]

On 14.12.2013, at 20:32, Alexis Praga <alexispraga at mailoo.org> wrote:
> Alexander Strasser <eclipse7 at gmx.net> writes:
>>  Does it also happen when you run mplayer with an empty config?
> Yes.
> 
> I think it's not the fault of mplayer but rather of XFCE as I did not
> notice this issue before switching from Gnome to XFCE.

Might something else be using ALSA? Were you possibly using pulseaudio when you were using gnome?
Did you try explicitly specifying a device in case it is a dmix issue? For example -ao alsa=hw=0.0
The desktop environment isn't supposed to make a difference, at least not by itself.