[MPlayer-dev-eng] AV out of sync with "-ao alsa" in gmplayer, mplayer works ok

[Lee Revell]

Using 1.0pre6, "gmplayer -ao alsa" results in the sound and video being
out of sync.  "mplayer -ao alsa" works fine, as does "-ao oss" with
either mplayer or gmplayer.

This is quite annoying, as I was expecting to FINALLY have a gmplayer
release usable with ALSA.  Previous versions were unusable due to that
stupid "/dev/mixer" bug.

What's the deal?  Why is it so hard for the mplayer developers to get
ALSA support right?  I hack on ALSA a lot, so if there is some problem
with the ALSA API, we would like to hear about it on the mailing list.
Or do you all just use OSS still?

>From the users perspective things like this make ALSA look bad, while
the problem is really with gmplayer's shoddy ALSA support.

Lee