[MPlayer-users] Unexpected quasi-pause when switching desktops

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hi!
> On 26 Aug 2022, at 19:21, The Wanderer <wanderer at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> and it was built on July 14th of this year. The environment is Linux,
> with -vo vdpau and -ao alsa.

I would first check if anything changes with e.g. -ao null or -nosound or -novideo or -vo x11 or -vo gl to at least narrow it down to one component...
It could be audio being given to some other process, or it could be the vsync waiting that breaks, or something completely different.

Best regards,
Reimar