I assume it is a DVD that is causing you grief. When you built
MPlayer (I assumed that based on whom you sent this email), what make
arguments did you pass? Since you built it, have you portupgraded?
What I am trying to get at is I don't think your MPlayer installation
is optimized. As an example, in my /ust/local/etc/pkgtools.conf file,
I have the following MAKE_ARGS for mplayer:
'multimedia/mplayer' = [
'WITH_OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS=yes',
'WITHOUT_RUNTIME_CPUDETECTION=yes',
'WITH_KERN_HZ=512',
'WITH_DVD_DEVICE=/dev/acd0',
'WITH_CDROM_DEVICE=/dev/acd1',
'WITH_CDPARANOIA=yes',
'WITH_LIBCACA=yes',
'WITH_MAD=yes',
'WITH_THEORA=yes',
'WITH_AALIB=yes',
'WITH_THEORA=yes',
'WITH_TREMOR=yes',
'WITH_SDL=yes',
'WITHOUT_ESOUND=yes',
'WITH_VORBIS=yes',
'WITH_REALPLAYER=yes',
'WITH_XANIM=yes',
'WITH_LIVEMEDIA=yes',
'WITH_MATROSKA=yes',
'WITH_XVID=yes',
'WITH_LZO=yes',
'WITH_XMMS=yes',
'WITH_DTS=yes',
],
Those top three make args are what allows my PIII 450 MHz machine to
play a DVD just fine. With those in their proper place in
pkgtools.conf (near the bottom in the MAKE_ARGS section), you can
portinstall or portupgrade mplayer and it will always be built with
those flags. I hope this helps.
On Jun 24, 2006, at 8:15 AM, Simon Morgan wrote:
Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope!
Ok, so I'm having real trouble playing videos under either FreeBSD
or OpenBSD.
Playback on OpenBSD is really choppy/stuttery, FreeBSD is a lot
better but still
enough to be annoying. I only have access to a FreeBSD installation
right now so
I'll stick with that.
It's worth mentioning that the machine in question is more than up
to the task
of playing video:
CPU: AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2000+ (1658.54-MHz 686-class CPU)
real memory = 1073725440 (1023 MB)
avail memory = 1041784832 (993 MB)
This is backed up by the fact that I don't get this problem under
Linux.
The closest I can come to a test case is running:
dd if=/dev/urandom of=blah
while a video is playing. Under FreeBSD this causes the video to
freeze for a
second and the dropped frame counter to increase by a varying
number of frames.
Linux, however, just keeps ticking along nicely.
I've tried swapping the video card between an ATI 9200 and NVIDIA
GeForce 4 and
swapping the sound card between a VIA VT8235 and a CMedia CMI8738
but neither
helped.
I'm pretty sure that nobody that reads this will be able to
reproduce this
problem but at least it means I have a way of easily testing things
if somebody
is kind enough to help me try and resolve this problem.
Thanks for your time.
--
One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
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