[MPlayer-users] using -ao pcm

[Dave Lawrence]

On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 10:05:01PM +0200, Arpi wrote:
> Hi,
Hi

> > I have been using
> > 
> > mplayer -dvd 3 -vo null -ao pcm -hardframedrop
> > 
> > to try and extract the audio from a DVD. But whenever '-ao pcm' is
> > used, mplayer runs slower and slower making extraction completely
> > impractical. Have I just missed something obvious?
> > 
> > I have using the latest 0.50 release.
> -ao pcm and other timing-less drivers won't really work.
> maybe try -benchmark option instead of hardframedrop.
This behaves in the same way :(

This taken from mplayer output after running for approx one minute:

$ mplayer -dvd 3 -vo null -ao pcm -benchmark

A:   2.8 V:   4.9 A-V: -2.137 ct: -0.449  114/114  36%  0%  2.2% 0 0

I left mplayer running last night for > 1hr and it captured 10s of audio!

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