fedora 10 weird mplayer playback

[Roberto Ragusa]

Janez Košmrlj wrote:
> I upgraded to fedora 10 about a month ago. And since then mplayer
> doesn't play videos smoothly. The sound is ok, but the video plays to
> slow for a couple of seconds, then it plays to fast, to catch up with
> the sound, then it slows down again and so on.

Sometimes these problems are related to the audio playback.

Try if the smoothness is back with the option
  --nosound

If so, you have to concentrate on the audio layers:
pulseaudio and alsa.
First try:
  -ao alsa:device=front

Best regards.
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