[MPlayer-users] File plays faster without audio

[Attila Kinali]

On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 15:22:12 +0300
Samuli Kärkkäinen <skarkkai at woods.iki.fi> wrote:

> When I play it without sound (mplayer -ao null) it plays slower (as in
> "the movie progresses slower", not as in "it takes more CPU") than when
> I play it normally with sound. The difference is about 1 second per
> minute. Is this a feature or a bug? If it's a bug, I'll be glad to
> provide more info.

It's easy to explain: mplayer uses sound as reference for
syncronisation, when using -ao null it emulates the behaviour
of a sound card which doesnt need to be 100% exact.
So it's neither a feature nor a bug.

		Attila Kinali

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