After some experimentation, I think I've figured out it's not mplayer itself that causes this. I've also had similar pauses from vlc and totem which led me to try various settings in compiz without success, then killing compiz.real completely and running mplayer without a window manager.
I had no pauses then, the problem seems to be caused by something odd happening at the window manager level. -- random pauses released by pressing a key https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/438196 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
