[linux-audio-user] mplayer/jack questions - UPDATE

[Aaron Trumm]

UPDATE:  I can use multiple instances of mplayer to play just audio files
(mp3s) using jack - that's fine, works great.  it's the mpgs that I'm
supposed to play that have trouble




> hi all
>
> I'm sitting here with mplayer trying to get it to play nice with jack -
but
> it's not  - I'm playing an mpg
>
> what's happening is I'm getting the error message "too many video packets
in
> the buffer" when I'm running jack
>
> if I'm using gmplayer, what will happen is the audio will play with black
> video for a few seconds, then that error message will pop up, the video
will
> come in, and the audio will drop
>
> if i'm using mplayer from the command line, it's a little different, it
> plays black and gives the error message in the xterm window and then the
> video really struggles and hangs
>
> i've been reading mplayer-user archives (not actually on the list) and I
see
> this described exactly the same way in reference to playing dvds a lot,
but
> none of the solutions I've found suggested does anything
>
> my other option is to get multiple instances of mplayer outputting to the
> different channels (and different monitors on a multiple vga card system)
> without using jack...i haven't  had much luck yet with that because I
don't
> quite understand how you'd do that...
>
> uhm... vitals:
>
> gentoo 2.4.26.gentoo-r9
> jack .99.0.r1
> alsa 1.08.rc1
> mplayer 1.0-pre5-r5
> 333mhz pc
> 512m ram
> delta 1010 audio card
> onboard audio disabled
>
> thanks for any input!
>
> -- Aaron Trumm
>     www.nquit.com
>