[MPlayer-users] Animatrix and -delay workaround

[mdew]

On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 23:05, gabor wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> 
> ______________________________________________________________________
> 
> On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 12:55, Richard Jones wrote:
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > I'm trying to play the third animatrix episode. The first two I got to play by 
> > inserting a "-delay 11" in the command-line, like so:
> > 
> >   mplayer -fs -delay -11 program0xA3B1____640_dl.mov
> > 
> > And that's fine, but with the third, I can't seem to delay the sound long 
> > enough. I can put -60 in there, and it still doesn't appear to delay the 
> > sound any more than about 6 seconds. 11 would be about perfect again.
> > 
> > Does anyone have any ideas why it might not delay long enough?
> > 
> > Also, I'm getting a warning "Your system is too SLOW to play this!" when I put 
> > the delay in, but I know my system isn't too slow as it doesn't display that 
> > message when I don't delay the audio.
> > 
> > Is there any chance of being able to play the movies without resorting to 
> > trickery?
> > 
> > I tried the -dumpaudio suggestion made by gabor, but couldn't figure how to 
> > make it play the audio I'd dumped. The suggestion is here:
> > 
> >   http://mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/2003-April/031839.html
> > 
> 
> 
> sorry, my fault :(
> 
> i forgot the decode part: you need faad for this. get it from 
> http://audiocoding.com .
> 
> the correct way:
> 
> mplayer -dumpaudio -aid 1 animatrix3.mov
> mv stream.dump animatrix3begin.aac
> 
> mplayer -dumpaudio -aid 2 animatrix3.mov
> mv stream.dump animatrix3main.aac
> 
> faad animatrix3begin.aac
> faad animatrix3main.aac
> 
> cat animatrix3begin.wav animatrix3main.wav > animatrix3.wav
> 
> mplayer -audiofile animatrix3.wav animatrix3.mov
> 

doing all that to play one file, a bit hack really...would be nice if
mplayer could play it straight off like everyother file.


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