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

D Richard Felker III dalias at aerifal.cx
Thu Sep 16 05:36:35 CEST 2004


On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 10:52:18AM +0900, Attila Kinali wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 04:53:38AM +0300, Jan Knutar wrote:
>  
> > Yes, that is another issue, however, that is different from the current issue
> > of 2 frag buffers and mplayer simply sleeping too long.
> > 
> > I'd hate to think about when video decoding takes longer than audio buffer
> > time :/
> 
> But you have to, it's actualy the most important part.
> Playing a video with more then just enough CPU and I/O power is not
> hard, anyone can do that, even wmp. Playing a file at the edge is very
> hard, as sometimes the video steps over it. Not to fall down is all what
> matters in this case.

yes, but imo stuttering audio when this happens is a lot less
offensive than a/v desync! :)

rich




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