[Mplayer-users] slow sound

[Felix Buenemann]

On Wednesday, 27. June 2001 03:13, you wrote:
> I just found mplayer, and am trying to use to to play a SVCD I have. I
> have a 233 mhz K6. This version has no mtrr. I have a Voodoo3 card,
> and am runnign redhat 7.1 with XFree86 4.1.0. I can get the vcd to
> play, but it has annoying pauses that make it functionally
> unusuable. While I know my cpu is slow by today's standards, I don't
> think I'm having cpu problems, since top shows that I generally have 8
> to 12 percent idle. If I try running xmovie -vo null, I also hear the
> pauses, at about one hertz, and the led on the cdrom blinks at the
> same rate. If I try xmovie -nosound, the led on the cdrom is on
> constantly, and the picture appears fine. I think there is some bad
> interactoin with the soundcard (a generic sb clone) or the esd sound
> deamon on gnome.
>
> Can anyone offer any advice?
>
I think you are using mplayer with oss output and alsa 0.5 oss emulation, try 
using true oss kernel module or upgrade alsa to 0.9.
With current cvs or 0.18pre you can even use gcc 2.96 (think you need to use 
--disable-gcc-checking with configure).

-- 
Best Regards,
   Felix

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