Hello.
Thomas G:
First off, I do not have arts or esd installed. XMMS plays music fine
and many other programs have use of sound. Mplayer doesn't have sound
when I play videos. Is there anything I can do... and hopefully
without breaking my sound for other things.
It's hard to guess when you're not providing the actual output of the
`mplayer your_movie.mpg` command and any info where did you get your
mplayer from, but I'll asume that you're using the one from the
Christian Marillat repository[1] anyway. ;o)
Your problem may be an effect of the new default; from the changelog:
mplayer (1:1.0-pre3-0.2) unstable; urgency=low
[...]
* Make alsa9 the default -ao option
Check the ao setting in /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf - I don't
know much about sound in Linux yet, but ao=sdl works for me.
[1] http://marillat.free.fr/