[MPlayer-users] Slow down mplayer reading.

[Michaël Cadilhac]

michael at cadilhac.name (Michaël Cadilhac) writes:

>   Hi everyone !
>
>   I want to use mplayer with an Apple AirPort Express ; this involves
> using raop_play in a scary way.  The simplest one is to create a fifo,
> and let mplayer output raw PCM in it while raop_play reads it.  The
> solution proposed by the writer of raop_play is to create a character
> device and a kernel module, so that the output in the device is seen as
> an ALSA device, but the result is the same.
>
>   Problem is, there's a buffering somewhere (I don't think it's due to
> the character device), and pausing -for instance- the track on mplayer
> takes 10 seconds to `take effect'.
>
>   The simplest solution would be to slow down mplayer, so that one
> second on the track is output in one actual second.  Any idea of how to
> do such a thing ?

Any alternative solution would be greatly appreciated :-)

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