Re: [gentoo-user] Choppy video playback

2008-01-29 Thread James Ausmus
On Jan 28, 2008 5:57 PM, Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 10:29:47PM +0900, Mike Mazur wrote But the list of packages being recompiled have mostly to do with video, audio and transcoding. I understand it's the --newuse flag that's causing those, not the

Re: [gentoo-user] Choppy video playback

2008-01-29 Thread Eric Martin
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 29 January 2008, James Ausmus wrote: Portage *does not* look at CFLAGS in determining what to rebuild (even with -uDN) - portage only looks at USE flags and dependency upgrades/versions. Mike is correct in saying that, for packages to be recompiled with the

Re: [gentoo-user] Choppy video playback

2008-01-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 29 January 2008, James Ausmus wrote: Portage *does not* look at CFLAGS in determining what to rebuild (even with -uDN) - portage only looks at USE flags and dependency upgrades/versions. Mike is correct in saying that, for packages to be recompiled with the new CFLAGS, he would

Re: [gentoo-user] Choppy video playback

2008-01-29 Thread ionut cucu
On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:08:02 -0500 Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 09:18:26PM +0900, Mike Mazur wrote The output of `grep flags /proc/cpuinfo` is: flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi

Re: [gentoo-user] Choppy video playback

2008-01-29 Thread Mike Mazur
Hi, On Jan 30, 2008 7:24 AM, Mike Mazur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ -- SNIP -- ] For completeness, the .config for my 2.6.23-gentoo-r3 kernel is here: http://pastebin.ca/881174 Oh, I just found the IO scheduler setting. The scheduler in use is CFQ. I can't find the CPU scheduler though. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Choppy video playback

2008-01-29 Thread Mike Mazur
Hi Ionut, On Jan 28, 2008 5:04 PM, ionut cucu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ -- SNIP -- ] Firstly this is an overkill. secondly it has again nothing to do with the choppy mplayer issue. Think about it: an vo=gl2 means mplayer will not use the CPU for video rendering but the GPU hence the Cpu

Re: [gentoo-user] Choppy video playback

2008-01-29 Thread Mike Mazur
Hi James, On Jan 30, 2008 5:26 AM, James Ausmus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ -- SNIP -- ] Portage *does not* look at CFLAGS in determining what to rebuild (even with -uDN) - portage only looks at USE flags and dependency upgrades/versions. Mike is correct in saying that, for packages to be

Re: [gentoo-user] Choppy video playback

2008-01-28 Thread Paul Sobey
On Monday 28 January 2008 00:39:51 Mike Mazur wrote: In my case, vo=gl2, vo=gl and vo=x11 all behave the same, with regular pauses. xv is not listed when I type `mplayer -vo help`. So doesn't this indicate that it's perhaps not mplayer itself causing trouble, but rather something system-wide

Re: [gentoo-user] Choppy video playback

2008-01-28 Thread Mike Mazur
Hi Walter, Paul, On Jan 28, 2008 11:08 AM, Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ -- SNIP -- ] This is to be expected. Since you have -xv in USE, xv support is blocked. Did you have any problems with xv that caused you to block it? If not, change -xv to xv in USE in /etc/make.conf. And

Re: [gentoo-user] Choppy video playback

2008-01-28 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 10:29:47PM +0900, Mike Mazur wrote But the list of packages being recompiled have mostly to do with video, audio and transcoding. I understand it's the --newuse flag that's causing those, not the additional parameters in CFLAGS. Will the CFLAGS have benefits on other

Re: [gentoo-user] Choppy video playback

2008-01-27 Thread Mike Mazur
Hi Walter, On Jan 27, 2008 3:55 PM, Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 07:39:47PM +0900, Mike Mazur wrote CFLAGS=-march=prescott -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer The -march option may or may not invoke mmx, sse, sse2, etc in the CFLAGS line but it definitely does

Re: [gentoo-user] Choppy video playback

2008-01-27 Thread ionut cucu
On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 01:55:59 -0500 Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 07:39:47PM +0900, Mike Mazur wrote CFLAGS=-march=prescott -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer The -march option may or may not invoke mmx, sse, sse2, etc in the CFLAGS line but it definitely does

Re: [gentoo-user] Choppy video playback

2008-01-27 Thread Mike Mazur
Hi, On Jan 27, 2008 9:55 PM, ionut cucu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: True as that is, is think it's kind a of the point. I have been using mplayer to see movies since k7-2(I think it as a k7-2 don't remember for sure). I've seldom got the error about CPU being to slow and always it was another

Re: [gentoo-user] Choppy video playback

2008-01-27 Thread ionut cucu
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 07:28:35 +0900 Mike Mazur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Jan 27, 2008 9:55 PM, ionut cucu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: True as that is, is think it's kind a of the point. I have been using mplayer to see movies since k7-2(I think it as a k7-2 don't remember for sure).

Re: [gentoo-user] Choppy video playback

2008-01-27 Thread Mike Mazur
Hi, On Jan 28, 2008 7:55 AM, ionut cucu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 07:28:35 +0900 Mike Mazur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Jan 27, 2008 9:55 PM, ionut cucu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: True as that is, is think it's kind a of the point. I have been using mplayer to

Re: [gentoo-user] Choppy video playback

2008-01-27 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 09:18:26PM +0900, Mike Mazur wrote The output of `grep flags /proc/cpuinfo` is: flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts pni

Re: [gentoo-user] Choppy video playback

2008-01-26 Thread Mike Mazur
Hi Tomas, On Jan 25, 2008 8:55 PM, Tomas Papan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can you send us your /etc/make.conf ? Here it is (with comments stripped out): CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu CFLAGS=-march=prescott -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS} USE=gtk gtk2 gnome -apm -eds -emboss

Re: [gentoo-user] Choppy video playback

2008-01-26 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 07:39:47PM +0900, Mike Mazur wrote CFLAGS=-march=prescott -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer The -march option may or may not invoke mmx, sse, sse2, etc in the CFLAGS line but it definitely does *NOT* invoke them in the USE variable. USE=gtk gtk2 gnome -apm -eds -emboss

[gentoo-user] Choppy video playback

2008-01-25 Thread Mike Mazur
Hi, I'm having choppy video playback in mplayer, vlc and also in Firefox on YouTube and the like. I notice a video freeze every 1-2 seconds or so, then the video snaps back to where it should be. The audio sounds fine. Mplayer often spits out a warning message[1]. I also noticed that typing into

Re: [gentoo-user] Choppy video playback

2008-01-25 Thread Tomas Papan
hello, can you send us your /etc/make.conf ? br tomas Mike Mazur wrote: Hi, I'm having choppy video playback in mplayer, vlc and also in Firefox on YouTube and the like. I notice a video freeze every 1-2 seconds or so, then the video snaps back to where it should be. The audio sounds