UPDATE: I can use multiple instances of mplayer to play just audio files (mp3s) using jack - that's fine, works great. it's the mpgs that I'm supposed to play that have trouble > hi all > > I'm sitting here with mplayer trying to get it to play nice with jack - but > it's not - I'm playing an mpg > > what's happening is I'm getting the error message "too many video packets in > the buffer" when I'm running jack > > if I'm using gmplayer, what will happen is the audio will play with black > video for a few seconds, then that error message will pop up, the video will > come in, and the audio will drop > > if i'm using mplayer from the command line, it's a little different, it > plays black and gives the error message in the xterm window and then the > video really struggles and hangs > > i've been reading mplayer-user archives (not actually on the list) and I see > this described exactly the same way in reference to playing dvds a lot, but > none of the solutions I've found suggested does anything > > my other option is to get multiple instances of mplayer outputting to the > different channels (and different monitors on a multiple vga card system) > without using jack...i haven't had much luck yet with that because I don't > quite understand how you'd do that... > > uhm... vitals: > > gentoo 2.4.26.gentoo-r9 > jack .99.0.r1 > alsa 1.08.rc1 > mplayer 1.0-pre5-r5 > 333mhz pc > 512m ram > delta 1010 audio card > onboard audio disabled > > thanks for any input! > > -- Aaron Trumm > www.nquit.com >
