[MPlayer-dev-eng] MPlayer 1.0rc2 and ALSA 1.0.9, very slow (-nosound help)

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hello,

On 5/29/08, Jason Zhang (SRC) <Jzhang at sunrisetelecom.com.cn> wrote:
> Hi All,
>  I am newbie about MPlayer. Although I have searched the internet carefully, I did'nt get the answer.
>  So If my question's answer is very obvious, I appologize first.
>
>  Environment:
>  PXA320,Linux 2.6.14
>  Audio driver is alsa 1.0.9 and MPlayer is 1.0rc2. The video device is fbdev (800*480, 16bits color depth)
>
>  Whatever media file I play, it's very very slow. It takes about 2-3 seconds to play one video frame.
>  When I add -nosound flag to mplayer, it looks good.
>
>  I get some information from mplayer's help:
>
>  "If you happen to have a bad audio driver, try the -autosync  option, it should sort out your problems."
>
>  But that does'nt help me, even set the -autosync to 300.
>
>  So I suspect my problem is the classic audio driver issue or not. Could you please help?

Well, your platform is quite exotic and no active developer has been
working on XScale for some time, and no one has offered to donate a
machine to help them getting supported.... I hate to tell your that
you may be all alone to solve these issues :-(

Guillaume
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