From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 10 09:58:31 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBF3D16A4CE for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 09:58:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (207-173-254-228.bras01.elk.ca.frontiernet.net [207.173.254.228]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D40143FDF for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 09:58:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drew@mykitchentable.net) Received: from l035522 (unknown [165.107.42.110]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6641D3BF358; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 09:58:29 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <001d01c3a7b4$3f79e1d0$6e2a6ba5@lc.ca.gov> From: "Drew Tomlinson" To: "Jeremy Messenger" References: <020801c3a491$9c595820$6e2a6ba5@lc.ca.gov> Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 09:58:28 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 cc: FreeBSD Gnome Subject: Re: MPlayer & Gnome 2.4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 17:58:31 -0000 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeremy Messenger" Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2003 8:51 PM > On Thu, 6 Nov 2003 10:12:58 -0800, Drew Tomlinson > wrote: > > > I used to use Gnome 2.2 on a 4.8 box and run mplayer. This arrangement > > worked fine. However, since upgrading to Gnome 2.4, I've had problems > > with mplayer. Video runs smooth for about 2 - 3 minutes and then begins > > pausing briefly every 5 - 10 seconds. The pause lasts a fraction of a > > second and then catches up. The audio is fine. Sometimes the audio and > > video get out of sync but catches up over time. Options enabled are > > frame dropping, hard frame dropping, and autosynch. I'm using the xv > > (default?) video driver and the esd audio driver. The same stream on > > the same network from the same server does not have this problem in > > Windows Media Player on a Windows box. This behavior is consistent > > across various codecs and streams. > > > > In the beginning, I suspected the problem was introduced in an mplayer > > upgrade but now I think it might have come from the Gnome upgrade. > > Although the box is a 2.2 GHz Pentium 4 processor with 256K RAM, I > > suspect it can't keep up. I normally used gmplayer but tried a regular > > mplayer session started from a terminal window. What I noticed is that > > the counters pause when the video pauses. In fact, the whole machine > > pauses. > > > > I've tried running 'top' but I don't see any excessive cpu usage. > > mplayer only uses around 23% of the cpu and the rest of the system is > > only using 8% - 10% But maybe I don't see anything here because a usage > > spike is gone before the next top update? > > > > Anyway, any suggestions on things to check to confirm or deny my > > suspicions? Has anyone else experienced this? > > I use MPlayer a lot and I don't have any problem with it beside Metacity > VS MPlayer. However, maybe you should try to recompile/reinstall MPlayer > to see if it will help. What is the issue with Metacity? Maybe that's my problem? I know Gnome 2.2 used sawfish but 2.4 uses Metacity. I've tried recompile/reinstall of mplayer but it hasn't helped. Thanks, Drew