Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 10:12:58 -0800 From: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net> To: "FreeBSD Gnome" <freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: MPlayer & Gnome 2.4 Message-ID: <020801c3a491$9c595820$6e2a6ba5@lc.ca.gov>
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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? Thanks, Drew
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