Well I just took a look at xmms and VLC is a way better player to handle almost any format. No wonder you were having problems tracking your problem down, VLC is what you want
On 03/22/2010 03:03 AM, John Aldrich wrote:
On Sunday 21 March 2010, Michael Miles wrote:
in you player preferences check audio and make sure the audio type is pulseaudio not alsa and see if that works
if not it could try downloading vlc through add and remove software and do the same with audio preferences there Pulseaudio is the one to use for output
Although it's working now, I should point out I don't have a "pulseaudio" option in XMMS. :-) I logged out and logged back in and apparently that was enough to fix the problem.