[mythtv-users] Semi-OT: Eliminating pauses during playback
w/Mplayer
David George
david at thegeorges.us
Tue Sep 14 07:34:14 EDT 2004
On 9/14/2004 12:42 AM, Nate Thompson wrote:
>Sorry to reply to my own topic, but I found a little more once I started
>digging a little further. Running mplayer from the command line, I was able
>to see this error message:
>
>Alsa-play: xrun of at least xxx msec. resetting stream
>
>This shows up everytime there is a pause. This makes me think the problem
>lies with Alsa, but I have no idea what to do to try and remedy it. Maybe
>I'll try posting on the Alsa mailing list.
>
>
I've also had troubles with alsa. They went away when I upgraded to
1.0.5a. I also tried 1.0.6a since then and it didn't work as well.
Look at /usr/include/sound/version.h to see what version alsa you are
running (or cat /proc/asound/version). My sound hardware is ICH4 (Intel
82801DB).
HTH,
David
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