[MPlayer-users] mplayer SVN-r28935 with kernel 2.6.30.1

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 10:57:05AM +0200, Peter Hanzel wrote:
> Now I upgraded kernel to 2.6.30.1 and mplayer gets crazy. It plays more than 
> 5 time faster.
> I tried to slow it to normal speed. At speed 0.22 it look like normal speed, 
> but sound is bad.

MPlayer does timing via audio, so most likely audio playback is
happening too fast. Are you maybe using -ao oss? ALSA's OSS emulation
breaks all the time, and this isn't an unusual way to fail.
Generally try -nosound, -ao null, -ao alsa and whatever else you have
available.