[MPlayer-users] Re: Sound problems during porting from 0.6 to0.9pre3

[Attila Kinali]

On Mon, 13 May 2002 11:51:28 +0300
Jukka Tastula <jukka.tastula at kotinet.com> wrote:

> Duh, whats the point of loading esd if you have artsd? And whats the point of 

There is no point.

> having a sound server running anyway as most drivers allow non blocking 
> access to /dev/dsp nowadays. Pretty ironic isn't it; 

just because this is wrong. most drivers dont support this.
(infact there are just a few who do, like emu10k)

> artsd/esd is blocking 
> /dev/dsp even tho it was meant to prevent just that from ever happening :)

nope, they both grant a way of using a non blocking way using sound output,
but you have to use their way of doing it. at least from esd i know
that it supports a way for programms still doing direct "connection"
to the soundriver (ie esddsp). but this adds additional lag to
the soundpath that is not easy do calculate -> sound gets jerky
(ie there is a reason why mplayer direclty opens /dev/dsp)

			Attila Kinali

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