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Date:      Tue, 23 Mar 2004 13:35:56 -0600 (CST)
From:      "Paul Seniura" <pdseniura@techie.com>
To:        <freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org>, <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   mplayer cache problems, I think it's cross-platform
Message-ID:  <20040323193556.6E57C5C11@techpc04.okladot.state.ok.us>

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Hi y'all,


Finally getting caught up on CTM ports-cur deltas on
this Puny Pentium2.  ;)

The recent update for mplayer is having problems. 
I must specify '-nocache' for anything to work. 
Or 'nocache=yes' in the ~/.mplayer/config file. 

Any cache size at all >= 4 will cause mplayer to hang
with it not filling the cache (verbose showing):

  CACHE_PRE_INIT: 0 [0] 0  pre:0  eof:0
  Cache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)

I can hit Esc or q to get out of this hang in a
'normal' manner. 
A cancel will show:

  MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: enable_cache

I compiled & installed mplayer both with RTC support
and without, via /etc/make.conf .  No difference. 

The kernel & world are at the current CTM src-cur delta
levels, too (including last night's buckets CST).

I am using the KDE .wav files for testing.  With nocache
in effect, it works, both RTC and nonRTC compiled modes. 
The 'play' cmd from another port works fine, too.

Of course the GUIs based on mplayer are all hanging at
this same spot, too.  I don't know if they are
specifying cache size internally.

I haven't seen anyone mention this problem yet here. 
But it seems at least another person on another platform is
having similar problems: I saw a freshly-posted msg on
mplayerhq's dev list:
<http://mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/2004-March/thread.html>;

The top part of mplayer's cmd-line mode displays:

  MPlayer 0.92-3.3.3  (C) 2000-2003 MPlayer Team
  CPU: Intel Celeron Covington/Pentium II Deschutes,Tonga/Pentium II Xeon (Family: 6, Stepping: 2)
  Detected cache-line size is 32 bytes
  CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
  Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX

I'm not a member at the mplayer HQ.  I'm wondering how to
go about saying "me too" to their site.  Assuming other
FBSDers can reproduce this problem, can our maintainer
report this to the mplayer HQ, please? 
Or should I open a FBSD PR and let it go thru channels?

Thank you,

  --  Paul Seniura
      System Specialist
      State of Okla. D.O.T.



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