[MPlayer-users] Small query

[Corey Hickey]

D Richard Felker III wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 11:15:31PM +0000, Matt Wright wrote:
> 
>>[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>>Hi,
>>
>>I've been using MPlayer for sometime now and with great success, however 
>>there is one small point that is bothering me. A while ago I noticed 
>>that when playing DVD's the A-V very easily loses sync. I investagted 
>>further and found that if mplayer is run as root (not suid, that doesn't 
>>work) then it doesn't lose sync.
> 
> 
> RTFM about realtime clock (RTC) support. You probably need to
> configure your system so that it's usable without root.
> 
> 
>>I'm using 0.90pre8 with the XVIDIX vo (on a Radeon VE card) and OSS 
>>sound output (I think). It's running on a 1300Mhz Duron, 256MB RAM. 
>>Linux kernel 2.4.20 with Preemptive kernel patch.
>>
>>Any ideas??
> 
> 
> Hmm, vidix requires root, so maybe MPlayer is falling back to x11 or
> something when it doesn't have root.
> 
> If you want a real diagnosis you need to send a FULL copy of MPlayer's
> output (with and without root) to this list.
> 
> Rich
> 

Also, 0.90pre8 is very old. I don't remember when, but here was a _big_
dvd a-v sync fix not too long ago. If you update to 0.90rc5, you might
find that your problem is already taken care of.

-Corey