mplayer-nogui does not use pulseaudio as default sound output.

Binary package hint: mplayer-nogui

In karmic mplayer-nogui does not use pulseaudio as the default audio output as I would expect as pulseaudio is the default sound system.

It goes through something like this:
[AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy
AO: [alsa] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)

Adding the option -ao pulse works, presumably the default config file could be updated to reflect this.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Oct 1 22:43:06 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: mplayer (not installed)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-10.34-generic
SourcePackage: mplayer
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-10-generic x86_64