MPlayer & Gnome 2.4

[Jeremy Messenger]

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.

Cheers,
Mezz

> Thanks,
>
> Drew


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