[linux-dvb] slow mplayer with DVB

[Nico Sabbi]

Stone wrote:

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> On 6/10/06, *vindex+lists-linux-dvb at apartia.org 
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> <mailto:vindex+lists-linux-dvb at apartia.org>> wrote:
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>     Hello,
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>     I am using debian sid with mplayer 1.0-pre7cvs20060430-0.0 and kernel
>     2.6.16.
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>     Lately mplayer has become unusable for DVB-T viewing: video lags sound
>     and becomes badly desynched quickly. On the other hand, xine and vlc
>     work fine with the same dvb:// URLs.
>
>     It seems the problem apppeared sine I upgraded X to 7.x, but I'm not
>     sure.
>
>     Has anyone noticed this?
>
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> Try lowering the -cache in mplayers options.
>
> BG.
>

and make sure you are using xv or xvidix as video_out, or x11 may slow 
down playback