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For a while, I've had a problem with mplayer.
If there was another application using the sound system, e.g. firefox, then mplayer would not produce any sound. If I paused mplayer, watched something, say on youtube.com, and then restarted mplayer, mplayer would crash.
There is a fix. That is to add this line to ~/.mplayer/config:
ao=alsa:device=ch51dup
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