[MPlayer-users] audio - video synchronization

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 10:28:59PM +0200, Sebastian Krämer wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 April 2005 21:44, amber wrote:
> > > No. Both arts and esound suck when it comes to playing movies.
> >
> > yep. but this is exactly when i need them: i want to hear kadu [1] rings
> > while watching movie fullscreen.
> 
> Use alsa's dmix and you won't have to mind arts/dmix issues again..

a system like dmix has serious issues (a/v sync, performance, quality)
that are difficult to overcome, and although i've never used dmix i've
heard that it suffers from these problems. if you want multiple apps
using the soundcard at once you should really just buy a soundcard
that supports it natively.

rich