Arch Linux

Description:

mplayer stalls playing anything after version 3.2.x, reverting to 3.1.9 fixes the issue. It is alsa related since I play my stuff over HDMI using the nvidia 290.10 drivers. Regardless of playing a video or sound file, using -nosound works, I have created an strace included in that but report and will be happy to provide more info.

[frlinux@darkangel ~]$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: AD198x Analog [AD198x Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: AD198x Digital [AD198x Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 2: AD198x Headphone [AD198x Headphone]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

[frlinux@darkangel ~]$ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version
NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 290.10 Wed Nov 16 17:39:29 PST 2011
GCC version: gcc-Version 4.6.2 20111223 (prerelease) (GCC)


Additional info:
* package version(s)

3.2.1-1-ARCH
mplayer-34426-1

* config and/or log files etc.

grep -v "#" .mplayer/config

[default]
lavdopts=threads=8:fast=1:skiploopfilter=default
fontconfig=yes
utf8=yes
subfont-osd-scale=1
ao=alsa:device=hw=1.7
vo=vdpau,xv
afm=hwac3
spuaa=2
slang=fr,fra,en,eng
sub-fuzziness=1
font=/usr/share/fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera/Vera.ttf
subfont-text-scale=3

[gnome-mplayer]
msglevel=all=5
vo=vdpau


Steps to reproduce:
1. upgrade to any kernel past 3.2.x
2. play any audio/video file with mplayer