Michał Sawicz a écrit : > Dnia 2009-03-18, śro o godzinie 17:48 +0100, Olivier Tilloy pisze: >> Does playing the same video file in an other gstreamer based player >> (like totem) produce the same result, or does it play fine? >> >> Can also try playing the same video with gst-launch? In a terminal, >> type: >> >> gst-launch -v playbin uri=file:///full/path/to/media/file >> >> Let us know what the results are. > > I can confirm that for 720p mkvs, too. > > Totem and playbin play the file easily (around 40% of cpu) but in Elisa > it gets choppy now and then (cpu is around 35%, though, but I'm getting > some waits and that's what's probably the problem). > > I've a suspicion (to be confirmed) that it's caused by the media scanner > slaves or thumbnailers. Maybe they should be stopped when playing? I've > my media over the network and when the slaves / thumbnailer try to > access multiple files it may be that my file is getting through a tight > squeeze.
It might very well be the case that the media scanner deteriorates the performances to the point that the playback is affected. The solution of pausing the scanner while playing has already been suggested, it seems to make sense. How does elisa perform when the scanner has finished processing and if you kill the metadata slaves? > I'll try and confirm on that soon. > > Cheers
