[MPlayer-users] sound warbling every 2'nd minute?

[Svante Signell]

Hi,

When watching avi files and dvd's with mplayer (both released versions
and compiled from CVS), the sound warbles after around 2 minutes of
playing. This problem has been seen for some time now, so maybe I'm
the only one seeing this problem. The audio and video playback does
not seem to go out of sync, the A-V difference is always small.

Sometimes the audio goes back to normal but most often the problem
remains. It is easily resolved though, by seeking backward followed by
seeking forward is vice versa with the arrow keys. Output shown is
normal, except some occurences of:
alsa-space: xrun of at least xxx.y msecs. resetting stream
but these do occur on other boxes as well without audio problems.

Anybody has an idea how to find the cause of the problem? More info is
available on request.

Video driver: xv
Audio driver: alsa9, similar problems with oss
alsa9: 48000 Hz/2 channels/4 bpf/16386 bytes buffer/Signed 16 bit Little Endian
Audio device: Intel 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio, driver: snd-intel8x0 (alsa 0.9.0rc5)

Hoping to give input so that the already great mplayer gets even better.
Good work guys.

Svante