[MPlayer-users] Why is mplayer ~2 sec. to skip to next movie with audio?

[Reimar Döffinger]

On 21 Jul 2012, at 18:57, Sandra Schlichting <littlesandra88 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> You could try a different -ao, it is possible it claims that it is still
>> playing audio, so MPlayer waits for it to finish.
>> pulseaudio is particularly notorious for getting it wrong.
> 
> That is so great. Changing from -ao alsa to -ao pulse solved the problem.

A bit strange. I suspect that you might be using a setup that redirects ALSA to pulseaudio (which then goes back again to ALSA).
Some distributions have switched to that, even though the ALSA->pulse wrapper seems to be really buggy still.