Martin Collins sickofthesea@gmail.com wrote: [...]
when BT Wholesale (and other broadband suppliers) try to do a test order it throws it back because of a problem with BT's database that BT are trying to fix (for some months now). In the meantime the only way round it is to try and find a broadband supplier that is prepared to do a "manual order". The only one I've found so far is Demon Internet so it looks like I'll be going with them. BT have really annoyed me though.
Me too! It took 3 weeks to get a phone line (at least two engineer errors, AFAICT) and then another week and a half to get DSL, as BT Openreach somehow forgot it was a simultaneous phone+DSL order, then rejected the first attempt at ordering DSL because the phone line order wasn't marked as completed on their system.
I suspect The Phone Coop might try too, but they're also at the mercy of BT. If you want to credit me with the introduction, my affiliate link is http://www.thephone.coop/receive.htm?name=Agent_471&name2=index.html
Anyway, after several hours mucking about I've fixed the audio sync problem by switching the audio output in MPlayer to OSS instead of ALSA.
Strange. Do you have any ALSA plugins running by default that don't run for the OSS emulation? (aplay -L should give a lot of info, from which you can compare the default and dsp blocks.) Does pointing mplayer at ALSA device hw:0,0 work any better?
If not, it might be some version problem between mplayer and libasound or libasound and the kernel driver, but now I'm really guessing.
Good luck with DSL,