[MPlayer-users] Disable audio when using "." to step forward in a movie

[Ilja Sekler]

Hello,

as for now, using "." to step forward in a movie reproducibly crashes
pulseaudio on Ubuntu 8.10 after a few steps, freezing MPlayer (r28597).

Killing pulseaudio and starting mplayer with "-vo alsa" has another
drawback: depending on the video file, the audio chunks played on each
step go far ahead of the video (this happens e.g. with almost all
YouTube videos). As soon as MPlayer is unpaused, it tries to catch up
the audio, playing video in a fast-forward mode (and complaining about
the hardware being to slow for this).

I realize, that all these problems are probably bugs in pulseaudio and
alsa, but why not disabling audio in MPlayer on pressing "." completely?

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Regards

Ilja