Timur Tabi wrote: > Clemens Ladisch wrote: >> Timur Tabi wrote: >>> I have a customer who says that mplayer (using OSS) does not work when he tries >>> a kernel based on 2.6.23-rc4, but it works when he uses a kernel based on >>> 2.6.21. Everything else is the same (including the version of alsa-lib), so I >>> presume something broke in the OSS emulation in the kernel. >> It could also be a change in the driver. >> >> And it would be nice to know what "does not work" actually means. > > I didn't want to get into a length description of the problem without first > seeing if there were any obvious changes. There are still a few things I can debug. > > The problem I'm seeing is that when using mplayer to play a video file through > the OSS interface, at some point in the movie, the driver will stop telling ALSA > that has finished playing a period. It's almost as if ALSA is throttling the > driver incorrectly. > > If I tell mplayer to just play the file through OSS, the problem occurs almost > immediately. If I tell mplayer to convert the sample rate from 44100 to 48000 > (my driver understands 48000 but not 44100), the problem doesn't always occur, > but when it does (about every other time I play the file), it starts to happen > about 5 seconds into the file. > Why are you using OSS. mplayer supports ALSA direct. _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
