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

[Jesús Guerrero]

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?
-- 
Jesús Guerrero