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Thus spake Paul de Vrieze on Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 03:22:57AM CDT |
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> On Tuesday 18 April 2006 06:35, Rémi Cardona wrote: |
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> > Lindsay Haisley wrote: |
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> > > Also, why would I only have the problem of things running double-speed |
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> > > when sound is turned _on_ in mplayer? |
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> > |
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> > mplayer alsa output litteraly sucks. I had to change it to sdl (using |
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> > alsa ... how ironic) otherwise some videos would skip every second or |
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> > so. I guess mplayer and maybe others rely on the soundcard for proper |
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> > timing. Others, like gstreamer-0.10 seem to have better timing code. |
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> > |
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> > Anyway, I'd recommend trying without sound, and also the other way |
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> > around with "-vo null" to see if the sound is fine on its own. |
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> Enabling rtc support in your kernel, and adjusting the user level precision |
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> allowed really does help mplayer. That makes the timing suck a lot less. |
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> (Add the following line to /etc/sysctl.conf) |
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> dev.rtc.max-user-freq=1024 |
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Thanks for the suggestion, but no help here. max-user-freq is set by |
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default at 64. changing the value has no apparent effect on the sound |
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playback rate. |
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