[sclug] World's first Open movie released

[Dickon Hood]

On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 12:15:36 +0100, John Stumbles wrote:
: Alex Butcher wrote:
: >On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, John Stumbles wrote:

: >>$ mplayer Elephants_Dream_1024.avi


: >Try

: >    mplayer -ao oss -vo xv Elephants_Dream_1024.avi

Or install ALSA, which is better (you can have multiple things using the
sound devices simultaneously, for example).

: thanks, that's it!

: >if xv doesn't work, try x11.

: This works as well but warns
:            ************************************************
:            **** Your system is too SLOW to play this!  ****
:            ************************************************

: Possible reasons, problems, workarounds:
: - Most common: broken/buggy _audio_ driver
:   - Try -ao sdl or use the OSS emulation of ALSA.
:   - Experiment with different values for -autosync, 30 is a good start.
: ...
: It also gives very bad A/V sync (5-10 secs out!). With -ao oss -vo xv 
: the sync is not too bad, but still sometimes noticeably a fraction of a 
: second out.

In your last email, you pasted:

> Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied
> Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system
> startup scripts. 

Do this (or at any rate run that command, as root).  It'll allow mplayer
access to the real-time clock properly, which will help with timing
issues.

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