[vlc-devel] Re: Multicast udp streaming from playlist - problems

[Derk-Jan Hartman]

It's probably a problem with alsa or something. VLC uses alsa by 
default, I guess a lot of other applications still use oss. You can 
force vlc to use oss, with vlc -A oss. Or fix your alsa install of 
course :)

DJ

On 14 okt 2004, at 11:50, Dermot McGahon wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 10:33:43 +0100, Dermot McGahon <dermot at dspsrv.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> Over the last week we have been changing X drivers, kernels, drm
>> etc. attempting to get VIA h/w mpeg decoding working. Now when
>> playing from any media player (vlc, mplayer) the audio is
>> unrecognisable. It stutters continuously. What I don't understand
>> is that cat'ing a .au file to /dev/audio works fine, and playing
>> an mp3 using xmms-mp3 works fine.
>
> I just tested again and I was wrong. MPlayer plays the audio from an
> MPEG2-TS file (from hard drive) without problems. The applications
> that stutter are:
>
>  - vlc 0.7.2 (FC2 rpm)
>  - vlc 0.7.2 (compiled from source)
>  - vlc 0.8.0-test2 (compiled from source)
>
> The audio is standard layer-2 audio. MPlayer is using mp3lib to
> decode it. How do I specify alternative audio decode libs to vlc?
>
> I've looked in vlc -H --advanced but haven't seen the right option.
>
>
> Dermot.
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