[MPlayer-users] ymfpci - sdl

[Andrei Ivanov]

Hello,
I use a yamaha soundcard(ymf740 I think) with the kernel
drivers(2.4.12-ac)...If I use the default ao, it
sucks, but if I use ao sdl, it works fine, but I don't get any lockups.

On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Csaba Balogh - Sun Hungary - Support Services - Service Support Engineer wrote:

> yes, I'm also sad a bit, because mplayer is nearly unuseable on my
> Toshiba 4300 laptop(Cele III 600Mhz,128MB,S3 Savage MX/IX 8MB, X 4.1.0,mdk 8.1)
> I've got the movie sound and video out of sinc every time and of course
> the "Your computer is too slow to play this...".(tried a lot of vo,
> sdl:dga,fbdev,x11,xv vc:divx,divx4)
> I think something is wrong with the audio driver because if i use sdl as
> ao, I didn't get slow perf!(sync is also OK) but mplayer gets frozen after 1 or
> two minutes:
> "SDL: Audio timeout - buggy audio driver? (disabled)
> audio: Bad file descriptor				"
> The driver is ymfpci. I've tried it with alsa, it doesn't work.
> Does anybody using ymfpci as audio?(Yamaha cards)
> Csabesz
>
>
> > > 	Thank you for the suggestion.   It was very helpful.  Using
> > > 	'-ni -framedrop' plays the movie nicely.   It seems that a 700MHz
> > > 	Pentium-III is on the edge of  being too slow.  Time to buy a new
> > > 	notebook :-)
> >
> > strange thing. i'm playing dvd-sized divxes at home, with 500mhz p3 without
> > any framedrop at all... so 700 should be more than enough. i even played some
> > such files at work with a 400mhz celeron (even without sse!) and it was almost
> > fast enough.
> >
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