On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:34:57 -0500, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Jesús Guerrero wrote: >> >> kmplayer can get in the middle, can you -please- test regular mplayer >> from >> command line? >> >> I've had a similar issue a couple of weeks ago, and we were able to track >> it down on the mplayer mailing lists. If it's the same bug, I was able to >> consistently reproduce it in streams with ac3 (5.1) audio (stereo worked >> fine), and only when using ALSA. So, check that and see if you can see a >> pattern there. If you see that same pattern, then it might be the same >> bug, >> it's been fixed in the development branch, and the following ebuilds >> should >> work fine: >> >> 1.0_rc4_p20091026, 1.0_rc4_p20091026-r1, 9999 >> >> If not, then it's probably something else. But try with mplayer alone >> when >> debugging, since kmplayer just adds another level to worry about. For >> your >> reference, here's the bug I opened, there you can also find links to the >> relevant mails in the mplayer ML. >> >> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=286020 >> >> > > I can give it a shot at least. Do I just run mplayer path/to/file or do > I need to add some options so that it will provide more info?
Sorry for the delay, it's been a busy weekend ;) You can just run "mplayer <file>", if you need to force ALSA (so you can check if it's a problem with ALSA as it was my case) you can add -ao alsa, so it would be: mplayer -ao alsa <filename> Mplayer is usually smart enough to decide what to do without any further action on the user's side, however as someone said it's a very complex program that can do almost anything in which regards playing media files, that's why the man page is such a huge beast. If we manage to identify the bug and reproduce it consistently then that's a huge step towards finding a solution. By the way, what mplayer version are you using? -- Jesús Guerrero
