Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 19:47:34 +0100 (CET) From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: stolz@hyperion.informatik.rwth-aachen.de Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mplayer & esd Message-ID: <200201051847.g05IlZr11586@Magelan.Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <20020104201338.A763@i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
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On 4 Jan, Volker Stolz wrote:
> Hi, I was wondering why mplayer is explicitly built without
> esd support. I checked the mailing list archives and cvs logs,
> but couldn't find any hint.
ESD adds a lot of latency to the output. I don't know anything about the
reasons of the port maintainer, but personally I didn't think it is a
good idea to pipe the sound output of a video player through esd (sound
lag looks ugly).
Bye,
Alexander.
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