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Sans">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?<br>
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Debian Sid is the OS.<br>
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uname -r<br>
2.6.31.11<br>
<br>
dpkg -l | grep mplayer<br>
ii mplayer-custom
2:1.0~rc3+svn20100603-0.0 The Ultimate Movie Player For
Linux<br>
ii mplayer-doc
2:1.0~rc3+svn20100603-0.0 Documentation for mplayer<br>
ii mplayer-skin-blue
1.6-2 blue skin for mplayer<br>
<br>
dpkg -l | grep ffmpeg<br>
ii gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg
0.10.10-1 FFmpeg plugin for GStreamer<br>
ii libavformat52
5:0.6~svn20100603-0.0 ffmpeg file format library<br>
ii libavutil49
4:0.5.2-1 ffmpeg utility library<br>
ii libswscale0
5:0.6~svn20100603-0.0 ffmpeg video scaling library<br>
ii libxine1-ffmpeg
1.1.18.1-1+b2 MPEG-related plugins for libxine1<br>
<br>
dpkg -l | grep faad<br>
ii libfaad-dev
2.7-4 freeware Advanced Audio Decoder -
development files<br>
ii libfaad2
2.7-4 freeware Advanced Audio Decoder -
runtime file<br>
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