[mythtv-users] mplayer weirdness with latest at-rpms

[Matthew Conway]

Ever since I upgraded to 0.17 with an apt-get upgrade, mplayer has
been behaving weird for me.

At first it would work normally for most things except my digicam avi
files which it would stutter on once a second or so (used to play them
fine), and I see errors like below on the console each time it
stutters:

alsa-space: xrun of at least 114.184 msecs. resetting stream0.0% 0 0 0%

Now it is doing something even weirder - it will play the first second
or two normally  then rapidly skip through the entire video as if I
was on the highest  fast forward speed.  This happens for DVDs as well
as previously ripped (xvid) movies that used to play just fine.

I tried downgrading just mplayer to some older versions
(1.0-37_pre5try2 and mplayer-1.0-36_pre5), but the problem persisted,
so I'm thinking that maybe its the fault of some library mplayer
depends on, or some hidden config somewhere (I tried deleting
~/.mplayer)

Anyone else having simlar problems, have any ideas as to whats going
on here, or how I can debug it further?
For now I'm just using xine for everything and that seems to work fine.


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Matthew Conway
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