Re: [gentoo-user] Kmplayer, video and audio not syncing.

[Dale]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Saturday 31 October 2009 05:34:57 Dale wrote:
>
>> Jesús Guerrero wrote:
>>
>>> kmplayer can get in the middle, can you -please- test regular mplayer
>>> from command line?
>>>
>>> I've had a similar issue a couple of weeks ago, and we were able to track
>>> it down on the mplayer mailing lists. If it's the same bug, I was able to
>>> consistently reproduce it in streams with ac3 (5.1) audio (stereo worked
>>> fine), and only when using ALSA. So, check that and see if you can see a
>>> pattern there. If you see that same pattern, then it might be the same
>>> bug, it's been fixed in the development branch, and the following ebuilds
>>> should work fine:
>>>
>>> 1.0_rc4_p20091026, 1.0_rc4_p20091026-r1, 9999
>>>
>>> If not, then it's probably something else. But try with mplayer alone
>>> when debugging, since kmplayer just adds another level to worry about.
>>> For your reference, here's the bug I opened, there you can also find
>>> links to the relevant mails in the mplayer ML.
>>>
>>> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=286020
>>>
>> I can give it a shot at least.  Do I just run mplayer path/to/file or do
>> I need to add some options so that it will provide more info?
>>
>
> If you run mplayer <file> it will try to autodetect what to do. Or you can
> look at the kmpayer config and find the corresponding options in mplayer's man
> page and use those to see if it makes a difference.
>
> Beware the mplayer man page - it's huge, complex and a horrendous read. That's
> unavoidable - happens with any complex software that covers 100s of possible
> combinations.
>
>

I noticed it was huge.  That was why I asked.  I figured a reply might
be faster than me trying to read all that then understand it as well. 
That could take a looooooong while.  LOL

Dale

:-)  :-)