Ivan- Mplayer gets a big set of command line switches from Freevo. Are you watching AVI's or DVDs?
evan On Sat, 15 May 2004 05:03:13 +0200 "Ivan Pantovic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a quite weird loking problem .. and anoing too... > > I'm building freevo on a Shuttle SP51G with P4 Celeron 1.7 and 256 Mb RAM 120Gb HDD > and so on ... VGA is Matrox G400 and the picture is excellent using directfb on a > second head. I'm also using PCTV tuner with his IR remote and it's working like a > charm (dough i have a conflict with some commands from my samsung tv remote but that > just need ironing out) > > problem manifestation is: > > while movie is playing ... picture (and audio) pauses for a moment, then breefly > after some time (it is sometimes 2s or 10s there is no pattern) start playing again > after obvious resinhronization (video starts fast and then slows down until sync > with audio, audio continues normaly) then everything is fine for a while (again it > is never the same ammount of time .. 20-30-40minutes then it happens again) > > i noted so far that CPU usage for mplayer while this is happening sky rocket to full > 99% CPU usage. (that is only what i could find out) > > What i tried so far: > > First my guess was mplayer and his way of fine time sincronization. I tried turning > of the RTC timer, (using soft timer then of course disabling it completly). After > that I suspected the onboard SiS chipset and integrated audio i810 ac97 so i pulled > out my PCTV card from the other PCI slot and inserting SoundBlaster Live it happens > again. Then i returned to mplayer and tried out some things like using Alsa instead > of OSS, using SDL for audio output like mplayer documentation suggested. > After a while i realised something else .... hm .. maybe cpu termal throttling lower > cpu speed and that causes mplayer to use it so much .. > I tryed no-hlt, noapic apic off .. and so on... I also tryed to monitor temperature > when pause occurs nothing and then i noticed it. > > When i run mplayer from a cmd line it never happens .. only while i'm playing video > from freevo gui. Why!? What is so different when i start it from freevo? What causes > mplayer to use 99% of CPU and how to debug it? Mplayer logs show just desync .. > nothing else .. , what causes mplayer to pauses? > > Is there anyone else that is having this exact problem and how to workaround it? > > -- Microsoft is not an International or Open Standard. Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. I can only access International or Open standard documents. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: SourceForge.net Broadband Sign-up now for SourceForge Broadband and get the fastest 6.0/768 connection for only $19.95/mo for the first 3 months! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=2562&alloc_id=6184&op=click _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
