[linux-audio-user] mplayer/jack questions

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