[MPlayer-users] Silence on seeking with alsa

[Alexander Roalter]

On 22.01.2014 09:25, Alexander Roalter wrote:
> Am 22.01.2014 07:05, schrieb Reimar Döffinger:
>> On 22.01.2014, at 00:07, Alexander Roalter <alex at roalter.it> wrote:
>>> Since noone seems to respond, another question.
>>>
>>> If I play back a DVD with dvdnav://, on chapter breaks I get the following output (with -v)
>>>
>>> [snip]
>>> A: 676.5 V: 676.5 A-V:  0.011 ct: -0.037 212/212 10%  0%  3.4% 2 0
>>>    {ERROR5,c=3}
>>> MPEG Stream reached EOF
>>> ds_fill_buffer: EOF reached (stream: audio)
>>> ds_fill_buffer: EOF reached (stream: audio)
>>> A:   0.0 V:   0.0 A-V:  0.000 ct: -0.037   0/  0 ??% ??% ??,?% 2 0
>>> [snap]
>>>
>>> Which triggers the short-time muting of the AV receiver
>>>
>>> Any idea why this happens? And especially, how to avoid this?
>>
>> I can say that none of this is supposed to happen, but if it is specific to certain DVDs or if dvdnav does something strange in general or what else I do not know.
>
> I'm using alsa output with -ao alsa:device=hw=1.1 and afm=hwac3,  .
> The silence on seeking happens with all files (also normal avi, mp4, or
> even audio files), the silence on chapter break only with dvdnav, but I
> suppose that is because of the way mplayer (or better put, dvdnav)
> navigates from cell to cell.
>
> With pulse, no such thing happens, but I need alsa (and hwac3) for
> outputting AC3 or dts to the receiver.
>
update:

with -ao alsa (and therefore stereo output), this doesn't happen. With 
-ao alsa:device=hw=1 it does happen.


-- 
Cheers,
Alex