[mythtv-users] how can i force faad as the mplayer audio decoder (ffmpeg decoder causes jerkiness)?

[Nick Rout]

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Jongi <jongitech at gmail.com> wrote:
> i've noticed that when mplayer plays mkv  files (H264), if it uses the faad
> decoder then they play smoothly. If it uses the ffmpeg audio decoder, the is
> a slight pause every 10-30 seconds. Is it possible to force faad on
> playback?

Not 100% sure but i think you'd run it with the option -ac faad,

To get a complete list of supported audio codecs

mplayer -ac help

(you can also put it as the default in ~/.mplayer/config or system
wide in /etc//mplayer/mplayer.conf, a line like

ao=faad,