Andreas Schneider wrote:
I installed MPlayer 1.0pre5 from source and everything seemed to work. But when I try to play mpeg videos the sound sounds like played under water and distorted.
I've had similar problems in other situations. Instead of MPlayer, I've noticed that when I use "mpg123" to play a song, it sounds -- as you describe it -- like it's under water and distorted. When I use "alsaplayer" however, it comes out fine. But since "xine" plays DVDs okay for me (Not SuSE's emasculated version, obviously), I've just trained myself not to use "mpg123". Getting it fixed once and for all is on my List of Things To Do, but as long as I have a working solution, I'm in no hurry to spend a lot of time on it. The only reason I mention it is because the problem may be more systemic than simply localized to "MPlayer" -- perhaps you need to try a different driver for your sound card, or try ALSA instead of OSS, or any number of other settings. I presume you have audio working in other applications; perhaps you can identify a pattern between which ones work and which don't (e.g., "That's funny, programs which access /dev/dsp0 work fine, but /dev/snd/pcm* sounds funny" or something.) I'll be interested in hearing your solution -- maybe it will magically help me solve my own issue. :-) -- Dabe