mplayer: work around poor quality mp2 audio playback

Keywords: mplayer, video
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If mplayer is compiled with certain gcc versions, videos with mp2 audio will have low quality / noisy audio output.

As a work around ffmpegs mp1/2/3 decoder should be used by either specifying the "-ac ffmp2" option or disabling format 0x50 for audiocodec mp3 in "~/.mplayer/codecs.conf"

Related notes for 'mplayer':
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mencoder: useful options