[Angstrom-distro-users] mplayer woes

[Stanislav Brabec]

Andrew Zabolotny wrote:
> From Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:26:42 +1000
> Da_Blitz <angstrom at pocketnix.org> wrote:
> 
> > are the channels muted?, if the box at the bottom says MM and is 
> > highlighted then its muted, if it says 00 then you are fine and the 
> > problem is elsewhere
> Hmm, after playing a little more with alsamixer I found the proper
> control combination to return the sound back. Whew, Zaurus has more
> sound controls than my 7.1 24-bit soundcard! :)

Newer Zauruses have 24-bit/96kHz sound chip as well.

> Sadly, when playing videos with sound at 32khz (I have a number of
> videos preformatted at 320x240 and 32khz sound, especially prepare for
> PDAs) everything is extremely slow and the sound is jerky and
> distorted. Interesting what's the reason for this, can't imagine a
> 415MHz CPU can't resample (even if hardware does not support rates
> different from 48000Hz). Looks more like a sound driver bug.

It might be related to:
spitz soundcard unusable for sample rates < 12000
http://bugs.openembedded.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2657

-- 
Stanislav Brabec
http://www.penguin.cz/~utx/zaurus