From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 9 20:52:32 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 1A97316A4CE for ; Sun, 9 Nov 2003 20:52:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from lakemtao05.cox.net (lakemtao05.cox.net [68.1.17.116]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D794143FBD for ; Sun, 9 Nov 2003 20:52:28 -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 <20031110045226.LTEA29834.lakemtao05.cox.net@mezz.mezzweb.com>; Sun, 9 Nov 2003 23:52:26 -0500 To: Drew Tomlinson References: <020801c3a491$9c595820$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: Sun, 09 Nov 2003 22:51:30 -0600 In-Reply-To: <020801c3a491$9c595820$6e2a6ba5@lc.ca.gov> 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 04:52:32 -0000 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. Cheers, Mezz > Thanks, > > Drew -- bsdforums.org 's moderator, mezz.