[MPlayer-users] Audio skips (fu:AC3 passthrough on SB Live! 5.1, audio skips)

[Jan Engelhardt]

>> I have similar problems. Whenever the system is under load -- more precisely
>> io load, i.e. hard disk activity -- mplayer tends to skip audio data.
>
>DMA and unmask irq's turned on?

DMA for harddisk? Yes.
unmask, no. Switching into umask (hdparm -u1) did not solve it.

>> I am using Linux 2.6.5(-SuSE7.95) with its bundled ALSA driver (cs46xx). Both
>> of -ao alsa1x and -ao pcm (=OSS emulation) of MPlayer 1.0pre4 and pre5 do skip
>> audio under load. (Such as dd if=/dev/zero of=test count=999999 bs=4096)
>
>Do you use -cache with mplayer? Mplayer might just be starved for input...

No, no other args, just a filename to play.

>Needless to say, I don't quite trust alsa yet. I think they care more about
>latency than reliability...

So what about mpg123 (uses /dev/dsp0) and ogg123 (dsp0 or alsapcmstuff) which
does not skip at all?

Using -cache <anynumber> seems to bypass this issue.



Jan Engelhardt
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