[MPlayer-dev-eng] AV out of sync with "-ao alsa" in gmplayer, mplayer works ok

[Lee Revell]

On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 21:51 +0100, Attila Kinali wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 22:55:33 -0500
> Lee Revell <rlrevell at joe-job.com> wrote:
> 
> > Using 1.0pre6, "gmplayer -ao alsa" results in the sound and video being
> > out of sync.  "mplayer -ao alsa" works fine, as does "-ao oss" with
> > either mplayer or gmplayer.
> 
> gmplayer and mplayer use both the exact same code to handle alsa,
> there is no difference there. If one works the other should too...
> ... unless you have different configs, but then it's clearly PEBCAK.

Oh really?  How do you explain that /dev/mixer bug that affected all
previous versions of gmplayer but not mplayer?

I would also expect the audio handling to be independent of whether the
GUI is being used.  But past experience has shown that not to be true.

Lee