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