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Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:19:18 +0200
From: vermaden <vermaden@interia.pl>
Subject: Re: Tragic State of FreeBSD Audio/Sound
To: Rodrigo Osorio <rodrigo@osorio.me>, "freebsd-current@freebsd.org"
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> I tried both mplayer and vlc without success
> (following the output provided by mplayer)
> I don't usually have problems with sound,
> and I'm able to play other video & audio files
> on my FreeBSD system, but for some reasons,
> not for this one.

This is just audio in MP3 format from that recording:
https://mediafire.com/file/v3wvg4rqn2srrw6/freebsd-tragic-audio-sound.mp3/file

To play existing MP4 file along with this audio MP3 sound You can use mpv(1) for example:
% mpv video.mp4 --audio-file=audio.mp3

Regards,
vermaden