Re: [RFC][PATCH] Transparent network support through polypaudio

[Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>]

On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 10:47 +0100, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> And you're speaking with mplayer's ALSA driver maintainer.
> Is there anything wrong with mplayer?  ;-) 

Actually, since you mention it...

I still get smoother playback with OSS emulation than mplayer's ALSA
driver.  I think it's because the ALSA driver resets the stream on
xruns:

alsa-space: xrun of at least 862.101 msecs. resetting stream3% 7 0                                    
alsa-space: xrun of at least 53.590 msecs. resetting stream.2% 27 0                                   
alsa-play: xrun of at least 5.844 msecs. resetting stream 5.1% 102 0                                  
alsa-space: xrun of at least 442.926 msecs. resetting stream1% 168 0                                  
alsa-space: xrun of at least 50.325 msecs. resetting stream 5.2% 4 0                                  
alsa-play: xrun of at least 15.953 msecs. resetting stream  5.1% 84 0        

This seems like a waste of CPU - after all there's nothing we can do but
drop frames if I'm trying to play a movie that my CPU can't quite
handle.  Shouldn't mplayer just ignore xruns?

Lee



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