[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] reduce latency for ao_pulse

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 09:47:45AM +0200, Dan Oscarsson wrote:
> On 2010-07-14 at 18:50 +0200 Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> > > If you enable autosync mplayer drops frames to keep up with the faulty
> > > ao driver.
> > 
> > No, -framedrop does that. If autosync without -framedrop does that it would
> > be a bug.
> 
> Yes, you are right. I was looking at the status line and forgot that
> even though it output dropped frames - the frames are only dropped if
> framedrop is active.
> 
> Maybe the status line output should be changed so it only shows dropped
> frames if they really are dropped?

That would remove useful information, namely an estimate of how badly the
PC is too slow for the job.