[MPlayer-users] Re: DVD Playback problems (lots of info provided...)

[Attila Kinali]

On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 21:44:56 -0700
Phil Dibowitz <phil at ipom.com> wrote:

> So that leaves me with a few questions:
> 
> 1. I'm now using:
> gmplayer -ao oss -vo xv -cache 8192
> and playback is much better... but audio is still fractionally behind 
> video. It's rather annoying. I've tried -ao alsa9 and get the same 
> result. So I guess that's:
>    1a. Anyone know which is better: alsa9 or oss?
>    1b. Anyone know how to fix my video sync probs.

Did you just say audio _behind_ video ?
Well, than it's something else than a too slow machine.
Attach again a -v log
 
> 2. If I choose a specific 'chapter' (instead of just saying "DVD -> open 
> disk") then mplayer shows a bunch of garbled video and then crashes and 
> says "mplayer crashed, this shouldn't happen" I will submit a core 
> either now if someone really wants, or if not then after I get 
> video/audio sync problems cleared up.

Report it please.

> 3. How come I can't get MENUs like on a tv-based DVD player or a win or 
> mac DVD player? Am I missing something obvious? I don't see this option 
> and playing the DVD from mplayer skips the menus and foes straight to 
> the first scene.

Still in development. (though there wasnt any change in that code lately)


		Attila Kinali


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