Hey sometimes not knowing is an asset in testing. Things an expert would see, say oh yeah, fix and not report cause "everybody knows that" get easily in your way.

On the other side. Weirdness here. I was getting 'dropouts on the mplayer command so... I desiced to pipe the output to a file to easily post it to this forum. Now when I pipe the output of mssglevel to a file the output is clean. Whe I send it to screen it's choppy. Seems to be that the effort the system applies to writing to screen gets in the way of writing to the audio device.

However there are a number of errors(?) in the file all about an invalid new backstep. I'm not sure but I don't think it's a commentary on The Allman Brothers Band.

Arrrghhh... the forum doesn't allow gzip .... *R%$# attaching as txt with a freaking extension so this forum can handle it *sigh* and it still won't work so try this URL instead http://linuxrebel.org/mplayer-out.txt.gz