[MPlayer-users] File plays faster without audio

[Colin Leroy]

On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 15:22:12 +0300 Samuli Kärkkäinen
<skarkkai at woods.iki.fi> wrote:

Hi,

> When I play it without sound (mplayer -ao null) it plays slower (as in
> "the movie progresses slower", not as in "it takes more CPU") than when
> I play it normally with sound. The difference is about 1 second per
> minute. Is this a feature or a bug? If it's a bug, I'll be glad to
> provide more info.

It's due to the fact that no framedrop is available is there's no sound to
sync with. Without sound frames aren't dropped and movie slows down.

For me, with big divx files, the difference is about 1 second per 2
seconds ;-)

-- 
Colin
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