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From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
Subject: Re: mplayer & esd
To: stolz@hyperion.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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