Thus spake Paul de Vrieze on Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 03:22:57AM CDT > On Tuesday 18 April 2006 06:35, Rémi Cardona wrote: > > Lindsay Haisley wrote: > > > Also, why would I only have the problem of things running double-speed > > > when sound is turned _on_ in mplayer? > > > > mplayer alsa output litteraly sucks. I had to change it to sdl (using > > alsa ... how ironic) otherwise some videos would skip every second or > > so. I guess mplayer and maybe others rely on the soundcard for proper > > timing. Others, like gstreamer-0.10 seem to have better timing code. > > > > Anyway, I'd recommend trying without sound, and also the other way > > around with "-vo null" to see if the sound is fine on its own. > > Enabling rtc support in your kernel, and adjusting the user level precision > allowed really does help mplayer. That makes the timing suck a lot less. > > (Add the following line to /etc/sysctl.conf) > dev.rtc.max-user-freq=1024
Thanks for the suggestion, but no help here. max-user-freq is set by default at 64. changing the value has no apparent effect on the sound playback rate. -- Lindsay Haisley | "Fighting against human | PGP public key FMP Computer Services | creativity is like | available at 512-259-1190 | trying to eradicate | <http://pubkeys.fmp.com> http://www.fmp.com | dandelions" | | (Pamela Jones) | -- [email protected] mailing list
