Gene Heskett wrote:
Traceing thru the linkage from /usr/bin/mplayer, a link that points back to /etc/alternatives/mplayer, which itself is a link to /usr/bin/mplayer1 which does not exist.
Can this be fixed? That does seem to be the real problem, and its not something I can recall piddling with.
you can use update-alternatives, but perhaps better remove the link - I don't have it in stretch
you can try ffplay to test audio it will also install the codecs required.
regards