MPlayer & Gnome 2.4

[Drew Tomlinson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7 at cox.net>
Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 10:47 AM


> 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'm using mplayer-gtk-esound-0.92.0_2 from the ports.  Maybe when 1.0
makes it to the ports tree, things will get better.  I've seen the full
screen bug you mention.

> > I've tried recompile/reinstall of mplayer but it hasn't helped.
>
> Ok, darn then I don't know what else.

Thanks anyway,

Drew