[MPlayer-dev-eng] Patch: Low latency audio enhancements

[Attila Kinali]

On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 05:29:52PM +0100, Ed Wildgoose wrote:
> The following is a patch which allows mplayer to work with pro sound 
> card like my RME 9632.  These cards only allow two periods in the sound 
> buffer, and this leads to very short audio latency.  This is easily 
> fixed with the patch below which just removes the artificial limit 
> stopping mplayer spinning it's loops more quickly.  (This is less 
> invasive than my previous patch)
> 
> There is also a fix for what looks like a slight bugette in the the alsa 
> output code where it seems to always overwrite the defaults for buffer 
> size that are set at the top of the module.  This doesn't look deliberate.

Alex, Ivan, Rich, could you please give a comment about this patch ?

			Attila Kinali