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Jabrick

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Registered: 2011-05-13

Posts: 79

[SOLVED]MPlayer audio/video sync issues

First off I have an HD 5870 ATI video card, and was able to play 1080p videos in windows.
Unfortunately when I'm using MPlayer it is saying my computer is too slow, so I added some thing in the ~/.mplayer/config

ao=alsa
framedrop = yes
autosync = 30
cache = 8192

If I put into the terminal "mplayer -autosync 30"
I get

MPlayer SVN-r33159-4.5.2 (C) 2000-2011 MPlayer Team
162 audio & 359 video codecs
Usage:   mplayer [options] [url|path/]filename

And then a list of options.
Does this mean the command went through successfully?
I tried using the + and - keys in MPlayer but it doesn't seem to make a difference.
If anyone could help me I'd be extremely grateful. Argh!

Last edited by Jabrick (2011-07-02 17:14:01)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: [SOLVED]MPlayer audio/video sync issues

Have you tried other multimedia players, like vlc?

If you have 'autosync = 30' in your config you don't need to type it into the terminal.

RazrFalcon

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Registered: 2011-05-18

Posts: 44

Re: [SOLVED]MPlayer audio/video sync issues

Or smplayer.
Also try mplayer2 instead of mplayer.

kokoko3k

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Re: [SOLVED]MPlayer audio/video sync issues

mplayer is the best choice for playback.
Post your hardware configuration as long as the driver you installed, there's a bunch of options you can enable to speed-up decoding.

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Re: [SOLVED]MPlayer audio/video sync issues

Try vaapi if you are using the catalyst drivers.

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Jabrick

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Registered: 2011-05-13

Posts: 79

Re: [SOLVED]MPlayer audio/video sync issues

karol: Thanks for the tip, and yes I've tried vlc. For some reason it still lags at the beginning but the audio/video are kept in sync, after 15 minutes the whole thing runs smoothly.

RazrFalcon: Maybe I will if I get too frustrated with mplayer, hahaha.

kokokok: Um I have the Asus G73jh, HD 5870 ATI, Intel core i7, Eax advance HD 4.0, and using the xf86-video-ati driver.

Mr.Elington: I'm trying the vaapi thing, but how exactly do I get it to work properly? I downloaded the mplayer-vaapi, and the vdpau-video, and pacman cannot find xvba-video. When I ran the command mplayer -vo vaapi:xv -va vaapi "insert movie here", I have audio playing but no video. What am I missing?

Thanks for all the support guys!

EDIT: I'm using mplayer2, and now everything works fine No more headache!

Last edited by Jabrick (2011-05-24 19:04:25)

karol

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Re: [SOLVED]MPlayer audio/video sync issues

EDIT: I'm using mplayer2, and now everything works fine No more headache!

Great :-)
Just remember that mplayer2 doesn't have mencoder http://www.mplayer2.org/comparison.html (scroll to 'Dropped features').