Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 12:47:04 -0600 From: Jeremy Messenger <mezz7@cox.net> To: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> Cc: FreeBSD Gnome <freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: MPlayer & Gnome 2.4 Message-ID: <opryfqgqjh8ckrg5@smtp.central.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <001d01c3a7b4$3f79e1d0$6e2a6ba5@lc.ca.gov> References: <020801c3a491$9c595820$6e2a6ba5@lc.ca.gov> <opryenr4tw8ckrg5@smtp.central.cox.net> <001d01c3a7b4$3f79e1d0$6e2a6ba5@lc.ca.gov>
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On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 09:58:28 -0800, Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net> > Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2003 8:51 PM > > >> On Thu, 6 Nov 2003 10:12:58 -0800, Drew Tomlinson >> <drew@mykitchentable.net> 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. The issue is MPlayer and should be fixed in the 1.0 as I am told. It's somewhere in the freebsd-gnome archive. However, MPlayer still will work with MPlayer but it flood a lot of same error message when you move the MPlayer around. Also, it has some weird bug with the full screen. If I use Fluxbox's wm and the full screen works as it's supposed to be. > I've tried recompile/reinstall of mplayer but it hasn't helped. Ok, darn then I don't know what else. Cheers, Mezz > Thanks, > > Drew -- bsdforums.org 's moderator, mezz.
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