Re: Audioproblem after upgrading to kernel 3.4.4

Lindsay Sprinter <zlinw@mcmedia.com.au> wrote:

The major error message from both xine and mplayer is

"Unable to open audio: No available audio device"

Mplayer gives more information, the problem is any video that uses a AAC (MPEG2/4 Advanced Audio Coding) sound track fails (formats so far that do not work is flash video and MP4), other soundtracks appear to be OK, The actual failure appears to be caused by the sound driver not exepting the hw setup arguments from Xine and mplayer.

I think this is a question for your distribution's bug tracking system or a kernel-related audio list. Meanwhile, try playing the audio under Pulseaudio, which may convert the format into something acceptable to the driver.