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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.

-- 
            Secret hacker rule #11: hackers read manuals.

http://www.Leidinger.net                       Alexander @ Leidinger.net
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