Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs [SOLVED, sort of]

2012-05-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Paul Hartman writes: On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Finally, I found something. It's Dolphin! [...] Now, would this be an MPlayer problem, or one of Dolphin? I wonder if Dolphin is generating thumbnails/preview indexes at the same time you're

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs [SOLVED, sort of]

2012-05-14 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Finally, I found something. It's Dolphin! I've done some longer testing, always playing the same video parallel with a dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/10G bs=1M count=1, in mplayer, for a minute, several times. When I do

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs [SOLVED, sort of]

2012-05-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sat, 12 May 2012 11:41:33 -0400 Norman Invasion invasivenor...@gmail.com wrote: On 12 May 2012 11:05, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Norman Invasion writes: On 11 May 2012 21:40, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Finally, I found something. It's Dolphin! [...]

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs [SOLVED, sort of]

2012-05-13 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 4:56 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: [1] .avi files are notorious for this shit. It's what happens when you are Microsoft and you release any old crappy format without consulting the other experts out there (who will always outnumber you) Which better

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs [SOLVED, sort of]

2012-05-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun, 13 May 2012 14:12:04 -0400 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 4:56 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: [1] .avi files are notorious for this shit. It's what happens when you are Microsoft and you release any old crappy format without

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs [SOLVED, sort of]

2012-05-13 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 13 May 2012 14:12:04 -0400 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 4:56 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: [1] .avi files are notorious for this shit. It's what happens

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs [SOLVED, sort of]

2012-05-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun, 13 May 2012 17:01:07 -0400 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 13 May 2012 14:12:04 -0400 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 4:56 AM, Alan McKinnon

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs [SOLVED, sort of]

2012-05-13 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 13 May 2012 17:01:07 -0400 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 13 May 2012 14:12:04 -0400 Michael Mol

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs [SOLVED, sort of]

2012-05-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun, 13 May 2012 18:03:59 -0400 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 13 May 2012 17:01:07 -0400 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Alan McKinnon

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs [SOLVED, sort of]

2012-05-13 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 7:27 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 13 May 2012 18:03:59 -0400 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 13 May 2012 17:01:07 -0400 Michael Mol

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs [SOLVED, sort of]

2012-05-12 Thread Norman Invasion
On 11 May 2012 21:40, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Finally, I found something. It's Dolphin! I've done some longer testing, always playing the same video parallel with a dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/10G bs=1M count=1, in mplayer, for a minute, several times. When I do this by

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs [SOLVED, sort of]

2012-05-12 Thread Alex Schuster
Norman Invasion writes: On 11 May 2012 21:40, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Finally, I found something. It's Dolphin! [...] Apologies: I haven't followed this thread from the beginning, Which was quite long ago :) but do you have any advanced power management features enabled

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs [SOLVED, sort of]

2012-05-12 Thread Norman Invasion
On 12 May 2012 11:05, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Norman Invasion writes: On 11 May 2012 21:40, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Finally, I found something. It's Dolphin! [...] Apologies: I haven't followed this thread from the beginning, Which was quite long ago :)

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs [SOLVED, sort of]

2012-05-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Finally, I found something. It's Dolphin! I've done some longer testing, always playing the same video parallel with a dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/10G bs=1M count=1, in mplayer, for a minute, several times. When I do this by opening the file in Dolphin, I get about 15 interruptions, some for