here is what I can find in logs /usr/local/bin/mplayer -autosync 100 -nolirc -autoq 100 -fs -slave -ao alsa1x -v -vo dfbmga -cache 5000 //data1/filmovi/futur ama/Futurama.S01.Extra.Animatic_for_Space_Pilot_3000.frankysan.ShareReactor. ogm -subfont-text-scale 5 -fs -sws 2 -vf pp=de,scale=720:-3,expand=720:576, poll=-1
please note that software descaler was not used by default, but the pauses remained. nevertheless, i still could use good advice where to look, and how to proceed in locating this odd behaviour? > yep i know ... but in later 1.4. version in local.py file there was variable > stating switches used by default when running mplayer, in 1.5 it's gone .. i > guess i could go in mplayer.py and do it there ... but it is still a mystery > what switch could cause mplayer to behave like that? > > I'm mostly watching avi's ... I also tried out some dvds and I didn't > noticed pauses. Run smoothly for hours. Playing mp3 is also flawless. > > > 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? > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ------------------------------------------------------- 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
