[mythtv-users] "Videos" Play too fast and choppy

[John Sturgeon]

My apologies if this was addressed earlier in the thread as I am just 
jumping in, but it could be your source audio stream's bit-rate is 
incomaptible with your audio device.  you might try setting 'srate' to 
48000 for mplayer.  Here is my mplayer's config file (much of it 
leveraged from Jarod's guide):

---- begin .mplayer/config ----
# Write your default config options here!
# run full-screen
fs=yes
# zoom image to fill the screen
zoom=yes
# disable mplayer's usual verbosity
really-quiet=yes
# use XVideo for video output
vo=xv
# don't enable joystick
nojoystick=yes
# use alsa for audio out, through spdif
ao=alsa9:spdif
# if ac3 audio, send raw stream to my amp, else fall back
ac=hwac3,
# my display is 16:9
monitoraspect=16:9
lirc=no
srate=48000
cache=8192
---- end .mplayer/config ----

or from the command line:
mplayer -zoom -fs -quiet -vo xv -ao alsa9 -srate 48000 %s

--
John <><

Nowhere wrote:

>OK I installed and tried Xine as the video player in Setup/Videos/Player
>Settings and it plays at the correct speed. So it is a problem with
>mplayer.  Here is my commandline for mplayer...
>
>mplayer -fs -zoom -quiet -vo xv -ao alsa9 %s
>
>Anyone have any ideas why mplayer is playing video and audio too fast?  
>
>If I can't fix the mplayer then I need to figure out how to get xine to
>launch directly to fullscreen and not in a window first then switch to
>fullscreen. My commandline for xine is:
>
>xine --f -g -D -A alsa --no-logo --no-splash %s  (do I need alsa9?)
>
>but this pops xine up in a window and then switches to fullscreen
>leaving the mouse cursor in the center of the video, which does fade
>after a minute but annoys my perfectionist side. The flash of the KDE
>desktop just isn't polished enough for me ;) Any fix for this? I know
>there are a buncha xine users out there.
>
>Any comments/help would be appreciated!
>Thanks again!
>Eric
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
>[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Nowhere
>Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 8:16 PM
>To: 'Discussion about mythtv'
>Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] "Videos" Play too fast and choppy
>
>Thanks for the info Henk. 
>
>I'm not sure I want to run Myth as root all the time though. I still
>need to check to see if this will make a difference. I have no keyboard
>on the system and getting myth to launch as root from a remote PC is
>proving troublesome... I have a small script to kill/launch the frontend
>from my remote:
>
>#!/bin/sh
>
>killall mythfrontend
>DISPLAY=:0.0 nohup mythfrontend &
>
>How can I make it run the front end as root?
>
>Does anyone else have troubles playing avis and such in mythvideo (ie
>too fast?) I would rather find the root cause and fix it than patch it
>with the timebase unless everyone is running that way.
>
>Any other clues?
>
>Thanks again for the support!
>
>Eric
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
>[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Henk Poley
>Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2004 1:03 AM
>To: Discussion about mythtv
>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] "Videos" Play too fast and choppy
>
>Op zaterdag 17 april 2004 06:04, schreef Nowhere:
>  
>
>>Thanks for the help. Unfortunately it didn't help. At least part of it
>>didn't help. I turned on the "Use Video As Timebase" option and when I
>>play a video using the Video selection I lose the video (black
>>    
>>
>screen).
>  
>
>>If I turn it off the video comes back.  I can however hear the audio
>>    
>>
>and
>  
>
>>it is still too fast (chipmunk effect).
>>
>><snip>
>>
>>My system is as follows:
>>...
>>MSI K7N2GL MB with nforce2 and GF MX440 onboard video and s-video out
>>    
>>
>
>Okay, you have an nVidia chipset (prerequisite for  "Use Video As
>Timebase"). 
>But do you also run the drivers from nVidia (prereq. 2)? And do you ruin
>the 
>frontend as root (prereq. 3)?
>
>	Henk Poley <><
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