On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 02:51:24PM -0500, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> The fundamental problem is that mplayer "processes" the video rather
> than just overlaying it.  I don't have a problem with this per se (as
> it makes playing tv just like playing any other video stream), but it
> does not seem that mplayer supports processing audio in the same
> manner, and it is expected that you just play the audio live through
> the mixer.

I remember some people mentioned using something called
'immediatemode' which apparently allows you to use a a device like
btaudio somehow. 

> Well, as anyone can see, this will be no end of a/v sync problems.
> You can't introduce delays in the video stream (as mplayer does when
> it reads from the tv card and outputs through it's video drivers) and
> not induce the same delays in the audio stream.
> 
> Is this solution unworkable (and if so, what is our plan to correct
> it), or is there a big piece to this puzzle that I am missing?  Is
> there some way to have mplayer read the audio from the device and
> delay it just as much as the video?  Is my local configuration just
> screwed or does Freevo not use this method by default for viewing TV?

I think the plan (at least for some of us) was to use mp1e to encode
the video into a buffer before playing it, so mplayer would just play
a stream; the main advantage of this though, is for pausing live tv.

Aubin


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