xine sound crippled

Matt Price matt.price-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
Sat Feb 28 05:48:53 UTC 2009


On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 23:11 -0500, Zbigniew Koziol wrote:
> Andrej Marjan wrote:

> > Over the years I've found the mplayer engine to be more robust on the whole 
> > than xine, even though libxine-based media players tend to be much nicer than 
> > mplayer. Also mplayer will occasionally screw up the aspect ratio (IIRC 
> > fixable through commandline options), but I've almost never had it fail to 
> > play a file. Even the really nasty ones that have been transcoded umpteen 
> > times and only barely work on Windows Media Player with an unholy amount of 
> > CPU.
> >   
> After some extra reading on from googled links (usually, a really waste 
> of time) and experimenting, now I have two more comments. How accurate - 
> I am not sure.
> 
> 1. No good documentation on how to use mplayer. Or, rather, so many 
> options on command line that are hard to understand that one can get 
> crazy very fast and go back to windows rather.
> 

to starat with, try launching gmlayer instead, so you have a GUI.

m
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