[MPlayer-users] possible bug: ALSA 1.0.1 + mplayer-20040126-cvs = choppy dvd playback and error messages

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 09:13:45AM +0100, Zdenek Pizl wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  in according to http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports_what.html I 
> am sending a bug-report here:
> 
> System Information:
> ----------------------------------
> distro: 	RedHat 7.3
> kernel:	Linux myAthlonXP 2.4.20-28.7 #1 Thu Dec 18 11:18:28 EST 2003 i686 
> libc version:  /lib/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.2.5.so
> 
> gcc:  gcc3 -v
> gcc version 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)
> 
> ld: ld -v
> GNU ld version 2.11.93.0.2 20020207
> as: as --version
> GNU assembler 2.11.93.0.2 20020207
> 
> Hardware and drivers:
> ----------------------------------
> cat /proc/cpuinfo 
> processor       : 0
> vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
> cpu family      : 6
> model           : 6
> model name      : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+
> stepping        : 2
> cpu MHz         : 1399.763
> cache size      : 256 KB
> fdiv_bug        : no
> hlt_bug         : no
> f00f_bug        : no
> coma_bug        : no
> fpu             : yes
> fpu_exception   : yes
> cpuid level     : 1
> wp              : yes
> flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca 
> cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow
> bogomips        : 2791.83
> 
> Video card:
> Matrox G550 DH 32MB SGRAM
> 
> Video driver type & version:
> Matrox Beta Drivers For XFree86, package version: 3.0
> DRI enabled, using mplayer's xmga driver
> 
> Audio device:
> Sound Blaster Audigy2
> 00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 04)
>         Subsystem: Creative Labs: Unknown device 1002
>         Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- 
> Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
>         Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- 
> <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>         Latency: 64 (500ns min, 5000ns max)
>         Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
>         Region 0: I/O ports at e000 [size=64]
>         Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
>                 Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA 
> PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
>                 Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
> 
> Playback problems:
> see attached mplayer.log file!
> 
> alsa-control: mixer attach  error: No such file or directoryA:   0.8 V:   0.7 
> A-V:  0.190 ct:  0.064   17/ 17   8% 172%  2.4% 14 0 97% ALSA lib 
> control.c:654:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL 
> 
> 
> The symptoms are:
> --------------------------------------------
> 1. [mkv] no head found dialog at start of playback

This was fixed in cvs last night.

> 2. choppy video playback
> 3. sometimes sound is not in sync with video

Maybe it's caused by using the postprocess filter? Or just the gui
being slow? Try without these and see if the problem goes away.

Rich