[Angstrom-distro-users] mplayer woes

[Tim Chick]

On Sunday 28 October 2007 20:24, Andrew Zabolotny wrote:
> From Sat, 27 Oct 2007 18:54:20 +0200
>
> Oliver Fels <oliver.fels at gmx.net> wrote:
> > > mplayer is playing it right (must be rotated in most cases, -vf
> > > rotate=1) giving -vo pxa as long as the movie does not exceed the
> > > resolution limits in which case one has to scale the movie before
> > > playing it.
> >
> > OK, that was too quick. It plays well the first time and brings the
> > Akita to a halt the next time mplayer is run even with the same
> > parameters.
>
> As I pointed out earlier, it seems to be a bug in mplayer sound driver
> (?) or in kernel sound driver, look in /var/log/messages, you should see
> a lot of "Alignment trap" messages. If you run the video without sound
> (-nosound), it can be launched any number of times without problems.
That was the first thing I was going to check.

Oliver - I have to sign up to pocketmovies.net? Do you not have something 
easier for me to test with?

Did anyone try a ~/.asound with the magic to resample the output to the audio 
driver? I'll try this when I can get a movie of the right format...

Thanks,
Tim