Tony Houghton <h@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I had a similar problem with MPlayer (except the periods of jerking) > until someone told me to try -ao oss because it's buggy with alsa. Is > softdevice's audio code based on MPlayer's, perhaps? My softdevice VDR runs very stably (Asus A7V8X, Athlon XP-M 2400+, SUSE Linux 9.3, Matrox G550 DVI out (!), 1280x720 resolution). Maybe your CPU is too slow or the machine starts swapping. You don't say anything about your installation so I can only speculate. Me at your place I'd join the softdevice mailing list. -- You will be surprised by a loud noise.