[MPlayer-users] AV delay required for Win32 codec divxa32.acm

[Arpi]

Hi,

not common, probably bug of teh file itself

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> When playing a certain AVI file MPlayer (20020907) says:
> 
> 
> Playing South Park 609 - Free Hat (Sound codec needed).avi
> Detected AVI file format!
> VIDEO:  [DIV3]  320x240  24bpp  29.97 fps  377.8 kbps (46.1 kbyte/s)
> ==========================================================================
> Detected audio codec: [divx] afm:acm (DivX audio (WMA))
> Opening audio decoder: [acm] Win32/ACM decoders
> Loading DLL: 'divxa32.acm'
> AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, sfmt: 0x10 (2 bps), ratio: 8010->176400 (64.1 kbit)
> vo: X11 running at 1600x1200 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local 
> display)
> ==========================================================================
> 
> 
> Playback works 'ok' but it requires a delay of 0.5 seconds - i.e. if I 
> add '-delay 0.5' to mplayer's commandline its ok.
> 
> Is this because its using the divxa32.acm Win32 DLL?
> (this is from the 0.60 codecs archive on the mplayer website).
> 
> 
> I haven't got any other AVIs that use this codec... but if its a common 
> problem then maybe mplayer should automatically apply the correct A/V delay?
> 
> (I can upload the AVI on request)
> 
> 
> I've confirmed this on two machines:
> 
> a) dual-celeron 500 smp machine running RedHat 7.1 using the matrox mga 
> driver on a G400, kernel updated to 2.4.19, SB1024.
> 
> b) Athlon 1.4 machine running RedHat 7.3 (kernel 2.4.18, patched for 
> nvidia) and X 4.2.0 on a Riva TNT2 Ultra, SBLive.
> 
> 
> Both running non-updated OSS (as supplied with RedHat) and separate 
> installations of mplayer compiled separately with the win32 codecs and 
> libavcodec from CVS in place.
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Neil
> 
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