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.
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