Re: [Gnash-dev] Threads and Synchronization

[strk]

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 11:21:27PM -0600, Craig Kelley wrote:
> Hi Gnash folks;
> 
> I'm looking at the GTK gui's run() loop, and it uses a g_timer with a
> lot of warning comments preceding it.  I think this is the root cause
> of the behavior that I'm seeing with gnash and SWF's that have long
> sounds (eg, Strongbad emails). 

I'm the author of those warnings but I'm not sure they are correct
anymore, under the light of the "elastic racetrack" model.
See http://wiki.gnashdev.org/MovieAdvancement

Sound and video sync problems are really due to the fact both
gst and ffmpeg media handlers uses NO syncronization mechanism
with the actual frame rate. We plan to fix this for 0.8.4.

--strk;