2010/5/8 Raymond Yau <superquad.vortex2 at gmail.com> > >> On Sun, 2009-12-20 at 09:55 -0500, Robert Henney wrote: > > >* the latest svn appears to have an alsa issue when playing more than one > *>* file on some particular files I have. it's reproducible too. > *>* > *>* the audio will consistently fail to initialize for the second video file, > *>* though if the files are reversed or played separately or -ao oss is used > *>* then the problem does not occur. > *>* > *>* mplayer -ao alsa "[SpoonSubs]_Sketchbook_full_color's_02_[E80DF436].mkv" \ > *>* "[SpoonSubs]_Sketchbook_full_color's_03_[FFE2F973].mkv" > *>* > *>* results in: > *>* Building audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/s16le -> 0Hz/0ch/??... > *>* [AO_ALSA] Unable to set buffer time near: Invalid argument > *>* Failed to initialize audio driver 'alsa' > *>* > *>* the sample files are in http://rut.org/sketch/ > * > >> Do you still get this error with the current git repo > (git://repo.or.cz/mplayer-build.git)? I fixed some issues that could > > perhaps cause this, but as I can't reproduce your problem on my machine > I don't know whether those were the ones you hit. > > [AO_ALSA] Unable to set buffer time near: Invalid argument http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.mplayer.cvs/12760 some PCI sound cards have special constraint on period size to fit the period with in the DMA page ( On x86 DMA page is 4K bytes )
