MPlayer & Gnome 2.4

[Drew Tomlinson]

----- 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.

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

Thanks,

Drew