Core 2 Duo not fast enough for Mplayer?

[Michel Salim]

On 12/11/2007, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <dominik at greysector.net> wrote:
> On Monday, 12 November 2007 at 14:33, Michal Schmidt wrote:
> > On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 12:26:30 -0500
> > "Dr. Diesel" <dr.diesel at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > This is perhaps a Mplayer or maybe PulseAudio problem, but maybe
> > > relevent.
> > > ...
> > > AUDIO: 8000 Hz, 1 ch, u8, 64.0 kbit/100.00% (ratio: 8000->8000)
> >
> > I remember having a problem playing a 8 kHz sampled
> > sound via PulseAudio.
> >
> > Try commenting out the line which includes pulse-default.conf
> > in /etc/alsa/alsa.conf.
>
> And try without pulseaudio, i.e. use alsa or oss directly (-ao alsa)
> and make sure pulseaudio is not intercepting alsa calls.
>
If playback with OSS works fine, try running it under pulseaudio (wrap
it with padsp) and see if you get any slowdown. From my experience
with Real Player, some apps work fine under PulseAudio's OSS emulation
but cannot handle ALSA routed through PA.

-- 
Michel