Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2003 22:51:30 -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: <opryenr4tw8ckrg5@smtp.central.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <020801c3a491$9c595820$6e2a6ba5@lc.ca.gov> References: <020801c3a491$9c595820$6e2a6ba5@lc.ca.gov>
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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. Cheers, Mezz > Thanks, > > Drew -- bsdforums.org 's moderator, mezz.
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