[MPlayer-users] Why is mplayer ~2 sec. to skip to next movie with audio?

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 12:49:20PM +0200, Sandra Schlichting wrote:
> > Or do you mean there's actually 1-2 seconds from when MPlayer prints
> > that it is done with 1.mkv before it starts with 2.mkv?
> 
> Yes. It happens with all movies and on at least on my Fedora and Ubuntu.
> 
> When I press return, mplayer exits to bash and then I have ~2 sec.
> before mplayer writes anything in bash and then starts to play the
> next.
> 
> It only happens if the movies have audio in them and I don't use -nosound.

You could try a different -ao, it is possible it claims that it is still
playing audio, so MPlayer waits for it to finish.
pulseaudio is particularly notorious for getting it wrong.