[MPlayer-users] (Bugreport) AC3 passthrough on SB Live! 5.1, audio skips

[Frederik Klama]

> > I just found out (trying out the Dolby Digital Demos) that the video
> > stream actually skips with the audio stream (not every time, but most of
> > the time (someskips seem to short for the eye to notice)).
>
> yea, my impression is that alsa skips if the system is under high load.

Yes, it does skip more if I have a high load, but only mplayer playing a DVD 
on a Dual PIII-800 (about 20-25% usage max on each processor) is not really 
what I call high load, and although the skips are less, they do not 
disappear. :(

Frederik Klama

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