[MPlayer-dev-eng] 0.90 pre8 _TODAY_ ?

[gabor]

On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 15:17, Arpi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > > > actually i have an approx 1sec long wav file, which is played correctly
> > > > with -ao alsa9, but doesn't work correctly with -ao oss...
> > > > 
> > > > with -ao oss it sometimes plays a bit of the file, and sometimes doesn't
> > > > play anything... it's as if it would be too short or what..
> > > > 
> > > > but for normal size file ( like songs ) it plays the whole file.
> > > 
> > > hmm
> > > the oss driver drops the buffer content at exit - so it won't play the rest.
> > > i'll look at it and fix, thanks for info that it's -ao specific :) 
> 
> i've checked.
> the oss driver resets the device before close - so drops the buffer contents.
> imho it's the better behaviour, for video. maybe for uninit() we could avoid
> dev reset, causing delay at exit.
> i actually like that mplayer exits immediately when i press q, i don't have
> to wait until the buffered audio is played to the end.

maybe this causes that ao-oss seeks faster than ao-alsa9..

if that's true, then i'd like to have this 'feature' in ao-alsa9 too :-)

bye,
gabor

> 
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