<br>I have found that not all players are created equal in this regard. This is one area where Totem (gstreamer) and Xine are definitely better than Mplayer. <br><br>I have an Athlon64x2 3800+ and I have experimented a bit with multithread settings in Mplayer but I have not gotten anywhere.<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Zern <<a href="mailto:mythtv@zernable.net">mythtv@zernable.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I'll have to try forcing it down to stereo to see if I get the same<br>
result as you. I forgot to mention in my previous post, but I do<br>
experience the same stuttering using mplayer as well.<br>
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Blammo wrote:<br>
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Zern <<a href="mailto:mythtv@zernable.net">mythtv@zernable.net</a>> wrote:<br>
>> Hello,<br>
>><br>
>> I'm trying to diagnose a problem I'm having with bad audio stutter. I'm<br>
>> trying to play a mkv file containing H264 video at 1080P and with DTS<br>
>> audio. I'm using ffmpeg and xv-blit renderer with spdif passthrough. I'm<br>
>> also running a recent SVN version.<br>
>><br>
>> The video plays beautifully and is perfectly smooth, however the audio<br>
>> it horribly stuttered. Anything else, both HD and SD plays fine, except<br>
>> for files with this specific encoding (I've tried 2 files).<br>
><br>
> I have the same problem. I've thrown RAM, processor, motherboard, etc,<br>
> at the problem, all to no avail. I discovered one other thing, at<br>
> least for me.. if I force it to stereo-2-channel, it doesn't stutter.<br>
><br>
> Either way, I'm running about 35% CPU usage on a 3.2g dual-core box<br>
> with tons of ram..<br>
><br>
> I _think_ it's a bug in FFMPEG, but it happens with ffmpeg, xine, and mplayer..<br>
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