Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 13:00:49 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> Cc: FreeBSD Gnome <freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: MPlayer & Gnome 2.4 Message-ID: <1068487249.725.53.camel@gyros> 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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--=-2/6ekJ/3HyWXXUZ+SHXO Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 12:58, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > ----- Original Message -----=20 > From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net> > Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2003 8:51 PM >=20 >=20 > > 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. >=20 > What is the issue with Metacity? Maybe that's my problem? I know Gnome > 2.2 used sawfish but 2.4 uses Metacity. Actually, GNOME 2.2 used Metacity as well. You can still switch to sawfish even in GNOME 2.4. Joe >=20 > I've tried recompile/reinstall of mplayer but it hasn't helped. >=20 > Thanks, >=20 > Drew >=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-gnome-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-2/6ekJ/3HyWXXUZ+SHXO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA/r9JRb2iPiv4Uz4cRAslCAKCPG+cbknxzyNl3Hg00f7/2ZsL/+gCfS1w0 f/4Xelvx+291khvjTomxAqA= =u5Wo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-2/6ekJ/3HyWXXUZ+SHXO--
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