[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] alsa: use buffer_time_min instead of buffer_time_near

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 01:48:27PM +0200, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> > using buffer_time_near allows ALSA to (in theory) create ridiculously
> > small buffers which MPlayer can not handle at all
> 
> Disregarding the bug below, this can happen only if the device does not
> actually support any buffer size bigger than that, so we'd only have the
> choice between small buffer or failure.

That does not match the fact that with my sound card/also version buffer_time_min
still works with a buffer time of 10000 while buffer_time_near does not.