From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 10 10:53:26 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 EC03A16A4CF for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 10:53:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from lakemtao05.cox.net (lakemtao05.cox.net [68.1.17.116]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5EF843F75 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 10:53:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from mezz.mezzweb.com ([68.103.32.11]) by lakemtao05.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.05 201-253-122-130-105-20030824) with ESMTP id <20031110185323.PCHV29834.lakemtao05.cox.net@mezz.mezzweb.com>; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 13:53:23 -0500 To: Drew Tomlinson References: <020801c3a491$9c595820$6e2a6ba5@lc.ca.gov> <001d01c3a7b4$3f79e1d0$6e2a6ba5@lc.ca.gov> Message-ID: From: Jeremy Messenger Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 12:52:28 -0600 In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Opera7.21/Linux M2 build 497 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 18:53:26 -0000 On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 12:47:04 -0600, Jeremy Messenger wrote: > On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 09:58:28 -0800, Drew Tomlinson > wrote: > >> ----- 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. > > 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 -------^^^^^^^ Err, I mean Metacity... ;-) Cheers, Mezz > 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.