[MPlayer-users] Thoughts on "pre-decoding" of compressed sound?

[ACS]

Richard Bromley wrote:

> When I play DVDs with Dolby Digital sound, I nearly always observe
> framedrops occurring periodically, typically with moderate to high
> frequency, and with short but noticeable intervals. 

Can you try a receiver  featuring hardware AC3/DTS decoding?
This mode creates, as I understand it, minimal CPU and I/O load

Adrian Bacon