Hello, i've tried your AC3-live encoder alsa plugin with mplayer. But the sound "stumbles" alot. My dolby-digital AV-Receiver interrupts playing every few seconds and mplayer reports the "too low cpu-speed" problem. But the latter can't be true (DualCore 2,2GHZ AMD64 and CPU is at 5%). I've tried with the following .asoundrc pcm.ac3enc { type a52 card 0 bitrate 448 channels 2 } pcm.a52out { type plug slave.pcm { type upmix slave.pcm { type a52 } } } and mplayer cmdline: mplayer -channels 6 -ao alsa:device=a52out EVENeverFadesLarge.wmv #or device=ac3enc I'm also tried different movies (trailer from games, apple and much more), all produces the same result. Have someone any suggestions what i can try further? Mplayer outputs the following error each time, perhaps this has something todo with it: [AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: pcm_hw.c:572:(snd_pcm_hw_start) SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_START failed: File descriptor in bad state My soundcard is a SBLive 5.1 with 1.0.13 alsa drivers. PassThru of already encoded material works fine without any interrupts. Thanks for help in advance. -- Markus Schulz ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user