[MPlayer-users] Bugreport a/v out of sync

Attila Kinali attila at kinali.ch
Wed Dec 24 19:39:03 CET 2003


On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 18:11:19 +0100
Alain Barthélemy <cassandre at bartydeux.be> wrote:

 
> That is well what I thought. Completely uninteresting but so many people said
> "Go to bugreports.html" that I obey like a nice little child. 

But bugreports.html also says that you should not truncate or cut anything
of the log, but copy and paste it entirely.

> Thanks for your
> answer though. It seems that I am the only one to have a/v sync problems only
> in X11 environment and not in pure console. Wait and See. I'll maybe see the
> reason of my problem in a next message. My only question was to ask if somebody
> had the same sort of problem to help localise its origin.

I guess that you might be using -vo x11, which is damn slow. Try -vo xv or something.


> Now I solved my problem indirectly by watching my DVD->DivX movies only in
> console with:
> 
> mplayer -aspect 16:9 -delay 0.083 -vf scale=1024:768 movie.avi
> 
> Very good quality, large image and no a/v sync problems. I like very much
> MPlayer.

You have enough power to scale in software and still get a/v desync ?

> Don't ask me why 0.083. I read it in a mail and tried it for fun. I have now the
> impression to have a better a/v sync. Let's call it superstition.

heh... that's about 2-3 times a frame duration.

You know that you can adjust a/v sync with some keys while playing ?


> > Also check whether something is running in the audio path
> > (arts, esd, ...)
> > if the delay is constant, there is a option to fix that.
> > (see tha manpage)
> 
> In the man page I have since long seen "-delay". If I type -delay -3. Guess
> what? Nothing changes! I even tried -delay -99 just to try and nothing ...
> Arts is desactivated and there is no esd.

Try again to send 2 -v logs, this time completly from the beginning
until the end. Best as attachmend, so i can easily diff them.


			Attila Kinali

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