On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 05:04:12PM +0100, Ilja Sekler wrote: > On 16.02.2009 16:38, Krzysztof Duchnowski wrote: > > Ilja Sekler pisze: > >> as for now, using "." to step forward in a movie reproducibly > >> crashes pulseaudio on Ubuntu 8.10 after a few steps, freezing > >> MPlayer (r28597). > > > >> Killing pulseaudio and starting mplayer with "-vo alsa" has > >> another drawback: depending on the video file, the audio chunks > >> played on each step go far ahead of the video [...]. As soon as > >> MPlayer is unpaused, it tries to catch up the audio, playing video > >> in a fast-forward mode (and complaining about the hardware being to > >> slow for this). [...] why not disabling audio in MPlayer on > >> pressing "." completely? > > > > Nothing good will happen with ALSA (or anything else) unless you > > uninstall PulseAudio. PulseAudio is messing with many multimedia > > applications, not only with MPlayer. > > Fine, but then I stuck with the ALSA problem, which is bad enough and > much older than PulseAudio. Well, there is also e.g. OSS and JACK, I think they don't have the issue. I also made a patch for that ALSA issue a long time ago (long enough that I neither have it on hand nor do I know what issues it had - it should be in the -dev-eng archives somewhere though). _______________________________________________ MPlayer-users mailing list MPlayer-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users
