Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 13:15:34 +0100 From: Simon Morgan <simon@16hz.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, mplayer-users@mplayerhq.hu Subject: Stuttery Video Playback Message-ID: <20060624121534.GA16828@bollo.16hz.net>
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Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope! Ok, so I'm having real trouble playing videos under either FreeBSD or OpenBSD. Playback on OpenBSD is really choppy/stuttery, FreeBSD is a lot better but still enough to be annoying. I only have access to a FreeBSD installation right now so I'll stick with that. It's worth mentioning that the machine in question is more than up to the task of playing video: CPU: AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2000+ (1658.54-MHz 686-class CPU) real memory = 1073725440 (1023 MB) avail memory = 1041784832 (993 MB) This is backed up by the fact that I don't get this problem under Linux. The closest I can come to a test case is running: dd if=/dev/urandom of=blah while a video is playing. Under FreeBSD this causes the video to freeze for a second and the dropped frame counter to increase by a varying number of frames. Linux, however, just keeps ticking along nicely. I've tried swapping the video card between an ATI 9200 and NVIDIA GeForce 4 and swapping the sound card between a VIA VT8235 and a CMedia CMI8738 but neither helped. I'm pretty sure that nobody that reads this will be able to reproduce this problem but at least it means I have a way of easily testing things if somebody is kind enough to help me try and resolve this problem. Thanks for your time. -- One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
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