Bug#663239: mplayer opens audio device in 48000 Hz for 44100 source material

[Elimar Riesebieter]

On Sat, 12 May 2012 15:33:02 +0200 Kurt Roeckx <kurt at roeckx.be> wrote:
> On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 04:09:38PM +0300, Uoti Urpala wrote:
> > 
> > > I know all this.  That doesn't mean things can't be improved.
> > 
> > Well, it certainly sounded like you didn't know all this; if you did, I
> > can't see why you wrote "The problem now is that mplayer does this in
> > libao2/ao_alsa.c:" in the original message, or reported this against
> > mplayer2 at all (in addition to libasound2). What could be improved in
> > mplayer2?
> 
> I guess I got confused about the comment in the source file
> indicating that with a newer alsa version this shouldn't be needed
> anymore.
> 
> But my understanding now is that dmix will always resample to
> what is in the config file (48000), and that by default I would
> get a worse resample algorithm unless I set up alsa to use
> a different one.

Is this bug still valid for you?

Elimar
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