[Gllug] mp3 encoding from Real Player output

[Stuart Children]

Howdy

Pete Ryland wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 09:44:02PM +0000, Stuart Children wrote:
> 
>>I have a DXR3 and it works pretty well.
> 
> 
> I got one the other day for a few quid off ebay but I've yet to spend more
> than a few minutes at home to try to get it working.

Drivers are at http://dxr3.sourceforge.net/ in case you've not 
discovered them. Should be all you need. You may need to recompile your 
video player applications with support (though some binaries already 
have the necessary bits enabled). Both xine and mplayer work fine for me.

>>The only issue I have is that the audio sync tends to go a
>>little which I find annoying. That could be my system though.
> 
> I'm not sure which player you're using, but with mplayer (the one I
> currently use), you can specify "-framedrop" and "-hardframedrop" which will
> drop minor video frames to ensure that the video doesn't start to lag the
> audio in the case where the cpu can't keep up decoding every frame.  If you
> don't want to use these options, I've found that pausing and unpausing will
> help it catch up.

Yeah, I use -framedrop normally, but neither fix the problem entirely. 
However, I am using OSS and Rev Simon Rumble points out that ALSA may do 
a better job (thanks Simon). I shall allocate some time to experimenting 
with it when I get around to trying out the 2.6 kernel (which itself may 
well help with these issues).

Cheers

-- 
Stuart

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