On Thu, 05 Dec 2002 12:31:14 -0500 Karol Pietrzak <kap4020@osfmail.isc.rit.edu> wrote:
Do you know the exact technical reasons for this? I'm just curious. Does the soundcard offload too much onto the CPU or something?
I suspect that it has something to do with the sound driver or the way that mplayer communicates with it, combined with the fact that most of these onboard sound chips are largely software driven (just check out their CPU usage on a slower machine). This perticular machine is an Athlon 1800+ and the sound plays a bit too fast (with raised pitch and all). I might be wrong about the why though.
Just FYI, from the mplayer man page:
-softsleep
Doesn't work in this case.
chmod +s `which command_to_make_setuid`
Thanks!
I think there's a better solution printed out by MPlayer itself:
$ mplayer some_file.avi [snip] Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system startup scripts.
I tried but it didn't work - turns out that there is no such directory and file. I don't know if I'm supposed to create it by hand - I'll play with it some more. Thanks Hans == Download ringtones, logos and picture messages at Ananzi Mobile Fun. http://www.ananzi.co.za/cgi-bin/goto.pl?mobile