[MPlayer-users] Playing DVD with hwac3: very low framerate

[Marc Packenius]

Ketil Z Malde <ketil at ii.uib.no> schreibt:

> Hmm...the interesting thing is that setting the
> audio.something.ac52.passthrough:1 in xine's config makes it work
> almost perfectly.  All right, there's a short noise at the start of an
> ac3 stream, but I still end up preferring Xine for watching DVDs.

As I understand it, xine uses system clock to sync video and audio,
which leads to an imperfect synchronisation under some circumstances
(lousy audio hardware?).

mplayer uses the soundcard clock to sync video and audio, resulting
(theoretically) in perfect synchronisation, but this works only if the
soundcard driver correctly supports this synchronisation.

So mplayer depends on functions of the soundcard driver that xine (like
most other applications) doesn't use.

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