[MPlayer-users] Smoothness and soundcards

[Arpi]

Hi,

> I am using MPlayer to watch divx stuff on my TV, and
> it works very well, however I have noticed a difference in
> the framerate between playing the movie normally
> and using -nosound. I have read the documentation
> and understand why this is, and I have tried a couple
> of different sound cards and drivers to try and match
> the smoothness of -nosound, but I cannot get the
> playback smoothness to be as good as when I play
> with -nosound.
> 
> Can anyone recommend a soundcard and driver
> that will give me the smooth playback I'm after?
> I have tried SB Live! and SB PCI128 with the stock
> drivers included with the linux kernel.

both sb live & sb 128 are ok, i used both with no problems
(kernel oss drivers)

you should use RTC timing (rtfm...) and try -autosync 50
or higher, also can try -mc 0.001 instead of teh default 0.01


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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