MPlayer & Gnome 2.4

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 09:58:28 -0800, Drew Tomlinson 
<drew at mykitchentable.net> wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7 at cox.net>
> Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2003 8:51 PM
>
>
>> On Thu, 6 Nov 2003 10:12:58 -0800, Drew Tomlinson
>> <drew at 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.
>
> What is the issue with Metacity?  Maybe that's my problem?  I know Gnome
> 2.2 used sawfish but 2.4 uses Metacity.

The issue is MPlayer and should be fixed in the 1.0 as I am told. It's 
somewhere in the freebsd-gnome archive. However, MPlayer still will work 
with MPlayer but it flood a lot of same error message when you move the 
MPlayer around. Also, it has some weird bug with the full screen. If I use 
Fluxbox's wm and the full screen works as it's supposed to be.

> I've tried recompile/reinstall of mplayer but it hasn't helped.

Ok, darn then I don't know what else.

Cheers,
Mezz

> Thanks,
>
> Drew


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