[MPlayer-users] Re: video fine, but audio scratchy and distorted

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Saturday, 18 November 2006 at 02:52, Cooper Strange wrote:
> > ------------------------------
> > Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 09:22:15 +0800
> > From: Cooper Strange <mplayerhq at chinacoop.net>
> > Subject: [MPlayer-users] video fine, but audio scratchy and
> > distorted To: mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu
> >
> > I run MPlayer on Fedora 6. I want to play DivX files. The video
> > shows up just fine, but the sound comes across as a very (and I
> > mean VERY) computer distorted sound. You can just barely tell the
> > distortion is based on the original sound, but it is like the
> > computer version of scratching fingernails on a chalk board.
> >
> > Of the video files I have, I can play ASF, WMV, and MOV with no
> > problems. I have the sound/audio problem with MPEG (MPG) audio, it
> > looks like. I had the problem both in an MPG file and the MPEG
> > audio in DivX files.
> >
> > I searched the web for days and only found one other person who
> >  seemed to have a problem like mine...here on this list. He seemed
> > to have accidentally solved his problem, and not really knowing how
> > he fixed it could not help much. I tried removing and reinstalling
> > MPlayer. I installed the DivX codecs (thinking maybe the MPlayer I
> > had did not have those codecs automatically).
> >
> > If it helps, here is what I get when I run "mplayer --version":
> >
> > MPlayer 1.0rc1-4.1.1 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
> > CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor (Family: 6, Model: 4, Stepping: 2)
> > CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
> >
> > Any ideas?
> > ------------------------------
> 
> I tried compiling MPlayer from source, but ran into all kinds of new 
> problems trying to get that to work (which is another story). Then, I 
> checked to see if I had the same problem on Fedora Core 6 on my 
> laptop (Intel), and everything played fine with the standard MPlayer 
> package installed through yum. I am assuming it is just problems with 
> my Athlon or something else on my desktop, but I really do not have 
> the time to keep playing with it.
> 
> Thank you all for your help. At least reading through your feedback 
> made me try it out on my Intel laptop and find out one way to watch 
> those movies. I will just have to wait till the standard Fedora Core 
> 6 MPlayer package works. I know for the hard core folks that sounds 
> lame, but that is a reality for me.

Use "-afm ffmpeg," as a temporary workaround (yes, with a comma).

I'll build FC6 RPMs soon.

Regards,
R.

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