Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Saturday 31 October 2009 05:34:57 Dale wrote: > >> Jesús Guerrero wrote: >> >>> kmplayer can get in the middle, can you -please- test regular mplayer >>> from command line? >>> >>> I've had a similar issue a couple of weeks ago, and we were able to track >>> it down on the mplayer mailing lists. If it's the same bug, I was able to >>> consistently reproduce it in streams with ac3 (5.1) audio (stereo worked >>> fine), and only when using ALSA. So, check that and see if you can see a >>> pattern there. If you see that same pattern, then it might be the same >>> bug, it's been fixed in the development branch, and the following ebuilds >>> should work fine: >>> >>> 1.0_rc4_p20091026, 1.0_rc4_p20091026-r1, 9999 >>> >>> If not, then it's probably something else. But try with mplayer alone >>> when debugging, since kmplayer just adds another level to worry about. >>> For your reference, here's the bug I opened, there you can also find >>> links to the relevant mails in the mplayer ML. >>> >>> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=286020 >>> >> I can give it a shot at least. Do I just run mplayer path/to/file or do >> I need to add some options so that it will provide more info? >> > > If you run mplayer <file> it will try to autodetect what to do. Or you can > look at the kmpayer config and find the corresponding options in mplayer's > man > page and use those to see if it makes a difference. > > Beware the mplayer man page - it's huge, complex and a horrendous read. > That's > unavoidable - happens with any complex software that covers 100s of possible > combinations. > >
I noticed it was huge. That was why I asked. I figured a reply might be faster than me trying to read all that then understand it as well. That could take a looooooong while. LOL Dale :-) :-)
