[MPlayer-cygwin] directsound driver

[Diego Biurrun]

Sascha Sommer writes:
> On Friday 20 August 2004 17:43, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > Sascha Sommer writes:
> > > Attached is an ao dsound that plays audio and video files fine for me.
> >
> > This version works perfectly for me on some files, but on others
> > playback is jerky and many frames are dropped on a >2GHz P4.  I'm not
> > including any logs or samples since this should be very easy to
> > reproduce.
> >
> > CPU usage appears to be higher with -ao dsound.
> >
> 
> Is the audio ok in case of the frame dropping?

No.

> If you also get this with the attached version increase MIN_CHUNK_SIZE

Yes, it happens with the attached version as well.  I increased
MIN_CHUNK_SIZE to 32768, this helped.

> Also try if autosync 100 improves the framedropping.

It helps.

With both increased MIN_CHUNK_SIZE and -autosync 100 it works mostly,
but there are still occasional jumps and a bit of framedropping.

Diego