On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 18:36 +0000, Tony Houghton wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Lee Revell wrote: > > > On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 21:24 +0000, Tony Houghton wrote: > > > I've got two PCs which I use mainly for watching video with MPlayer (for > > > various reasons Xine isn't so practical) and it has A/V sync problems on > > > them. I think it may be because my cheap & nasty sound cards lack some > > > feature that MPlayer relies on to sync properly: > > > <http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/audio.html#sync>. Unfortunately it > > > doesn't say exactly what the feature is and which are the bad drivers. > > > > Try mplayer with "-ao oss", this helps with the sync problems for me. > > It seems that mplayer's ALSA support is still buggy. > > Thanks, it does seem to work on both machines! NB -ao sdl is also buggy. > > Unfortunately I have a similar problem with vdr-softdevice. I think it's > going to be worth putting in an eBay bid on a Santa Cruz anyway; I > reckon it could still improve sound quality and reduce the amount of > framedropping MPlayer needs to do to keep in sync. >
This is really not a long term solution, someone needs to take the time to figure out what's wrong with mplayer's alsa driver. I don't think the mplayer developers care. One thing I noticed is that it reports xruns and resets the stream on each xrun which is wrong, an app like mplayer needs to disable xrun reporting. Lee ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
