From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: Denis Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>,
Eric Piel <Eric.Piel@tremplin-utc.net>,
mplayer-users@mplayerhq.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mplayer + heavy io: why ionice doesn't help?
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 10:43:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1156085026.10565.39.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0608201021340.9707@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 10:22 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >
> >It helps. mplayer skips much less, but still some skipping is present.
>
> Try with -ao alsa, then it should skip less, or at least, if it skip, skip
> back so that less audio is lost.
> When playing audio-only files, it is always wise to specify e.g. -cache 320
> which proved to be a good value for my workloads.
>
Only with the very latest versions of mplayer does ALSA work at all.
It's unusable here because it resets the auduio stream on each underrun
rather than simply ignoring them.
Lee
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-20 14:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-18 17:37 mplayer + heavy io: why ionice doesn't help? Denis Vlasenko
2006-08-18 17:57 ` Nick Warne
2006-08-18 18:01 ` Eric Piel
2006-08-19 18:04 ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-08-20 8:22 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-20 14:43 ` Lee Revell [this message]
2006-08-20 16:43 ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-08-20 21:36 ` Lee Revell
2006-08-20 22:04 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-22 16:26 ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-08-22 17:37 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-22 17:38 ` Xavier Bestel
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