I'm stumped on this one folks . . .

I'm running FC5; on-board soundcard . . . and (before you say it) it's worked perfectly until recently . . .

Mplayer plays mp3 files, but the sound is barely discernable behind a high pitch noise. Xmms, Realplay, and Xine-totem all play the same file just fine . . . so it's an Mplayer setting huh?

I removed and reinstalled all mplayer files, deleted home directory mplayer configs, reinstalled everything, adjusted every setting, tried every driver, played with KMix . . . nothing changes! The same high pitch squeal with the sound way back in the background.

I wouldn't worry about it, but I like the mplayer firefox plugin and it's effected by this same thing.

Any ideas?

K.Castania
New Bern, NC

Try adding the following to .mplayer/config (including the comma)
afm=ffmpeg,

Well, that fixed it.

Question: what did it do!?! and
how did you know?

Ken

I found the answer here
http://www.mail-archive.com/freshrpm.../msg01620.html

To find all the options you can use with mplayer, from a terminal run
man mplayer

-afm <driver1,driver2,...>
Specify a priority list of audio codec families to be used, according to their codec name in codecs.conf. Falls back on the default codecs if none of the given codec families work.
NOTE: See -afm help for a full list of available codec families.

EXAMPLE:
-afm ffmpeg
Try FFmpeg’s libavcodec codecs first.
-afm acm,dshow
Try Win32 codecs first.

I see (hear) this issue since yesterday on my Debian unstable, the fix worked for me. Thanks!