[MPlayer-dev-eng] [RFC] hack around desync on OSS pause

[Ivan Kalvachev]

2007/4/29, Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de>:
> Hello,
> what do you think about attached patch? It fixes the massive desync that
> happens esp. when doing lots of frame stepping with -ao oss.
> It is a bit hackish though, and in difference to alsa it will still loose some
> sound during pause and not play any sound while framestepping.

I've always thought that the problem is that we actually close the
device on pause, instead using the proper ctrl to actually pause it.
But so many people insist on that behavior.... To the extend to
request it for ao alsa too... (and my attempt to implement it properly
was futile;)