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

[Dale]

Jesús Guerrero wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:34:57 -0500, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> 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?
>>
>
> Sorry for the delay, it's been a busy weekend ;)
>
> You can just run "mplayer <file>", if you need to force ALSA (so you can
> check if it's a problem with ALSA as it was my case) you can add -ao alsa,
> so it would be:
>
>   mplayer -ao alsa <filename>
>
> Mplayer is usually smart enough to decide what to do without any further
> action on the user's side, however as someone said it's a very complex
> program that can do almost anything in which regards playing media files,
> that's why the man page is such a huge beast. If we manage to identify the
> bug and reproduce it consistently then that's a huge step towards finding a
> solution.
>
> By the way, what mplayer version are you using?
>

This is the emerge info for mplayer and ffmpeg since that is what it is
using:

root@smoker / # emerge -pv mplayer ffmpeg

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] media-video/ffmpeg-0.5-r1  USE="3dnow 3dnowext X alsa
encode hardcoded-tables ipv6 jpeg2k mmx mmxext mp3 sdl ssse3 vorbis x264
xvid zlib (-altivec) -amr -bindist -custom-cflags -debug -dirac -doc
-faac -faad -gsm -ieee1394 -network -oss -schroedinger -speex -test
-theora -threads -v4l -v4l2 -vdpau -vhook" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" 0 kB
[ebuild   R   ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p20090731  USE="3dnow X aac
alsa ass cddb cdio dirac dv dvd dvdnav enca encode esd faac faad gif
iconv ipv6 jpeg live mad mmx mng mp2 mp3 network opengl osdmenu png
quicktime rar real rtc schroedinger sdl shm speex sse tremor truetype
unicode vorbis win32codecs x264 xscreensaver xv xvid -3dnowext -a52
-aalib (-altivec) -bidi -bindist -bl -cdparanoia -cpudetection
-custom-cflags -custom-cpuopts -debug -dga -directfb -doc -dts -dvb
-dxr3 -fbcon -ftp -ggi -gmplayer -jack -joystick -ladspa -libcaca -lirc
-lzo -md5sum -mmxext -nas -openal -oss -pnm -pulseaudio -pvr -radio
-samba -sse2 -ssse3 -svga -teletext -tga -theora -v4l -v4l2 -vdpau
-vidix -xanim -xinerama -xvmc -zoran" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia -mga -s3virge
-tdfx -vesa" 0 kB

Total: 2 packages (2 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 0 kB
root@smoker / #

Those version OK?  I am also still using KDE 3.5.  KDE4 is just not
there yet for me. 

Dale

:-)  :-)