[MPlayer-users] Silence on seeking with alsa

Alexander Roalter alex at roalter.it
Wed Jan 22 21:23:47 CET 2014


On 22.01.2014 21:08, Alexander Roalter wrote:
> 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.
>
>
Another update:

since it also happens with audacious when I seek, I guess it's my alsa 
drivers that are to be blamed...

-- 
Cheers,
Alex


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