[MPlayer-cygwin] BUGREPORT - audio stutters with -vo direct3d and directx

[Reimar Döffinger]

On 1 jan 2011, at 17:10, John Brown <johnbrown_105 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> The first second or so repeats once before MPlayer goes on to
> play the movie. MPlayer -vo gl and gl2 do not have this problem.
> I tested with a DVD ISO image (MPEG2 + AC3), an AVI (H264 + MP3)
> and a Matroska (H264 + AAC + ASS sub).

Never had this myself, but this sounds like on your computer initialising DirectX is awfully slow, so MPlayer hangs (which causes the audio buffer to loop) while the initialisation is done.
You could try updating you video drivers, because I doubt anyone is going to optimise vo initialisation (though just moving some of it to preinit might help and have further advantages).
I think you didn't mention which Windows version you are using, on Vista and later, disabling Aero should speed up -vo directx initialisation a lot.
-ao win32 might behave better, too.
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