[MPlayer-users] Slower with sound ?

[Attila Kinali]

On Sat, 20 Oct 2001 23:34:32 +0200 (CEST) Arpi <arpi at thot.banki.hu> wrote:

> sync to video is hard to implement.
> 1. video cards has no timer, at least what we can use for something
> 2. if you should shift audio timing - what are you doing? increase/
>    decrease samplerate? not supported by most soundcards (drivers)
>    and also sounds very funny. or just skip/duplicate chunks? even worse.

Didnt you plan sync to video for the DVB cards ?

 
> so the only and best way is using audio card's timer.
> unfortunately GETODELAY and such ioctl()'s are at the advanced/experimental
> section of OSS specs, so some _driver_ developer think it's not mandatory
> to implement and they use dummy functions. :(

And what about ALSA ? Is the 0.9 usable/better ?

> unfortunately we're living in a half-implemented and very buggy world...
> we can either force users to buy perfect hardware (for example intel mb+cpu,
> matrox g400 and sblive are good trio) or we should workaround bugs.

Yeah! matrox for all, with full specs :-)

		Attila Kinali

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