[MPlayer-users] Disable audio when using "." to step forward in a movie

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 05:04:12PM +0100, Ilja Sekler wrote:
> On 16.02.2009 16:38, Krzysztof Duchnowski wrote:
> > Ilja Sekler pisze:
> >> as for now, using "." to step forward in a movie reproducibly
> >> crashes pulseaudio on Ubuntu 8.10 after a few steps, freezing
> >> MPlayer (r28597).
> > 
> >> Killing pulseaudio and starting mplayer with "-vo alsa" has
> >> another drawback: depending on the video file, the audio chunks
> >> played on each step go far ahead of the video [...]. As soon as
> >> MPlayer is unpaused, it tries to catch up the audio, playing video
> >> in a fast-forward mode (and complaining about the hardware being to
> >> slow for this). [...] why not disabling audio in MPlayer on
> >> pressing "." completely?
> > 
> > Nothing good will happen with ALSA (or anything else) unless you 
> > uninstall PulseAudio. PulseAudio is messing with many multimedia 
> > applications, not only with MPlayer.
> 
> Fine, but then I stuck with the ALSA problem, which is bad enough and
> much older than PulseAudio.

Well, there is also e.g. OSS and JACK, I think they don't have the
issue.
I also made a patch for that ALSA issue a long time ago (long enough
that I neither have it on hand nor do I know what issues it had - it
should be in the -dev-eng archives somewhere though).