[MPlayer-users] incorrect playing rate with dxr3 sound driver

[DEBERT Jean-Louis]

Attila Kinali wrote:

>  > Now I am wondering why this is not done automagically ??? I mean, 
>  > whenever you get a file (or worse, a stream) over the Internet,
>  > you seldom know _beforehand_ the way it was encoded, so you cannot
>  > set a useful parameter in a script or otherwise... you have first
>  > to run mplayer and parse the log to know.
>  
>  Because you'll get a los of audio quality. And most ppl dont
>  need it as their sound card supports all frequecies between
>  soemthing below 10kHz and 48kHz.

Well, I was only asking about doing it automatically _for dxr3_
of course not for regular soundcard (where it works OK anyway).


>  > Whereas at audio driver setup time, I believe that the headers
>  > (if any) are already parsed, so the video and audio parameters
>  > are already known, so the driver _could_ be setup automatically
>  > using the rule above. By the way, processing is okay for the
>  > oss _soundcard_ driver, so why not for the dxr3 one ?
>  
>  AFAIK dxr3 can only support some discrete samplingrates.

Possibly, but it still works correctly with "list=resample ..."
so this just means that the audio driver setup would have to be
smart about it.