Confirming. Seems to happen for films with audio encoded using mpga. Doesn't influence mplayer's ability to acctualy play the sound.
Mplayer console output for sample avi file: Requested audio codec family [mp3] (afm=mp3lib) not available. Enable it at compilation. Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/8.33% (ratio: 16000->192000) Selected audio codec: [ffmp3] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG layer-3 audio decoder) Mplayer console for sample mpeg file: Requested audio codec family [mp3] (afm=mp3lib) not available. Enable it at compilation. Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 192.0 kbit/13.61% (ratio: 24000->176400) Selected audio codec: [ffmp2] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG layer-1 and layer-2 audio decoder) ** Changed in: mplayer (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed -- Error related with mp3lib https://launchpad.net/bugs/62639 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs