[MPlayer-users] Silence on seeking with alsa

[Alexander Roalter]

Am 22.01.2014 07:05, schrieb Reimar Döffinger:
> On 22.01.2014, at 00:07, Alexander Roalter <alex at roalter.it> wrote:
>> Since noone seems to respond, another question.
>>
>> If I play back a DVD with dvdnav://, on chapter breaks I get the following output (with -v)
>>
>> [snip]
>> A: 676.5 V: 676.5 A-V:  0.011 ct: -0.037 212/212 10%  0%  3.4% 2 0
>>   {ERROR5,c=3}
>> MPEG Stream reached EOF
>> ds_fill_buffer: EOF reached (stream: audio)
>> ds_fill_buffer: EOF reached (stream: audio)
>> A:   0.0 V:   0.0 A-V:  0.000 ct: -0.037   0/  0 ??% ??% ??,?% 2 0
>> [snap]
>>
>> Which triggers the short-time muting of the AV receiver
>>
>> Any idea why this happens? And especially, how to avoid this?
>
> I can say that none of this is supposed to happen, but if it is specific to certain DVDs or if dvdnav does something strange in general or what else I do not know.

I'm using alsa output with -ao alsa:device=hw=1.1 and afm=hwac3,  .
The silence on seeking happens with all files (also normal avi, mp4, or 
even audio files), the silence on chapter break only with dvdnav, but I 
suppose that is because of the way mplayer (or better put, dvdnav) 
navigates from cell to cell.

With pulse, no such thing happens, but I need alsa (and hwac3) for 
outputting AC3 or dts to the receiver.

-- 
cheers,
Alex