After switching to Gnome Shell (personal preference) I noticed smplayer was still hanging in the same situations I mentioned above. So I googled a bit and found a similar report for openSUSE where a solution was to install mplayer2 that would replace mplayer package. It seems to work here too, as smplayer doesn't hang at all anymore.
I guess this bug report can be changed to refer to smplayer/mplayer package then. ** Package changed: unity (Ubuntu) => smplayer (Ubuntu) ** Summary changed: - unity-panel-service causing smplayer unusable + smplayer unusable with mplayer 1.x ** Description changed: - There's a serious usability problem with smplayer and unity. By opening smplayer and choosing a movie to play, smplayer's windows almost instantly grays out, movie stops playing and unity-panel-service CPU usage raises instantly to 100% while leaking memory at the same time (12% of my 4GB as reported by htop). After 10-15 secs the window goes back to normal, however e.g. by opening "Find subtitles" window from the menu I can instantly make the problem go back again. + THE DESCRIPTION BELOW IS NOT RELEVANT ANYMORE. Please see my comment + below for explanation. + + There's a serious usability problem with smplayer and unity. By opening smplayer and choosing a movie to play, smplayer's windows almost instantly grays out, movie stops playing and unity-panel-service CPU usage raises instantly to 100% while leaking memory at the same time (12% of my 4GB as reported by htop). After 10-15 secs the window goes back to normal, however e.g. by opening "Find subtitles" window from the menu I can instantly make the problem go back again. Killing unity-panel-service (SIGTERM doesn't work, only SIGKILL does) always restores situation back to normal (movie instantly resumes playing), but it's only a short time before memory leaks again and window grays out. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: unity 4.22.0-0ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3 Architecture: amd64 CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,compiztoolbox,mousepoll,move,imgpng,gnomecompat,regex,grid,vpswitch,animation,expo,wall,unitymtgrabhandles,place,workarounds,session,resize,snap,ezoom,fade,scale,unityshell] Date: Wed Oct 26 20:03:47 2011 InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Beta amd64 (20100902.1) SourcePackage: unity UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-14 (12 days ago) ** Description changed: - THE DESCRIPTION BELOW IS NOT RELEVANT ANYMORE. Please see my comment - below for explanation. + ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ + THE DESCRIPTION BELOW IS NOT RELEVANT ANYMORE. Please see my comment below for explanation. + ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ There's a serious usability problem with smplayer and unity. By opening smplayer and choosing a movie to play, smplayer's windows almost instantly grays out, movie stops playing and unity-panel-service CPU usage raises instantly to 100% while leaking memory at the same time (12% of my 4GB as reported by htop). After 10-15 secs the window goes back to normal, however e.g. by opening "Find subtitles" window from the menu I can instantly make the problem go back again. Killing unity-panel-service (SIGTERM doesn't work, only SIGKILL does) always restores situation back to normal (movie instantly resumes playing), but it's only a short time before memory leaks again and window grays out. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: unity 4.22.0-0ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3 Architecture: amd64 CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,compiztoolbox,mousepoll,move,imgpng,gnomecompat,regex,grid,vpswitch,animation,expo,wall,unitymtgrabhandles,place,workarounds,session,resize,snap,ezoom,fade,scale,unityshell] Date: Wed Oct 26 20:03:47 2011 InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Beta amd64 (20100902.1) SourcePackage: unity UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-14 (12 days ago) ** Description changed: - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ + ------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE DESCRIPTION BELOW IS NOT RELEVANT ANYMORE. Please see my comment below for explanation. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ + ------------------------------------------------------------------------- There's a serious usability problem with smplayer and unity. By opening smplayer and choosing a movie to play, smplayer's windows almost instantly grays out, movie stops playing and unity-panel-service CPU usage raises instantly to 100% while leaking memory at the same time (12% of my 4GB as reported by htop). After 10-15 secs the window goes back to normal, however e.g. by opening "Find subtitles" window from the menu I can instantly make the problem go back again. Killing unity-panel-service (SIGTERM doesn't work, only SIGKILL does) always restores situation back to normal (movie instantly resumes playing), but it's only a short time before memory leaks again and window grays out. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: unity 4.22.0-0ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3 Architecture: amd64 CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,compiztoolbox,mousepoll,move,imgpng,gnomecompat,regex,grid,vpswitch,animation,expo,wall,unitymtgrabhandles,place,workarounds,session,resize,snap,ezoom,fade,scale,unityshell] Date: Wed Oct 26 20:03:47 2011 InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Beta amd64 (20100902.1) SourcePackage: unity UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-14 (12 days ago) ** Tags added: apport-collected ** Description changed: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE DESCRIPTION BELOW IS NOT RELEVANT ANYMORE. Please see my comment below for explanation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- There's a serious usability problem with smplayer and unity. By opening smplayer and choosing a movie to play, smplayer's windows almost instantly grays out, movie stops playing and unity-panel-service CPU usage raises instantly to 100% while leaking memory at the same time (12% of my 4GB as reported by htop). After 10-15 secs the window goes back to normal, however e.g. by opening "Find subtitles" window from the menu I can instantly make the problem go back again. Killing unity-panel-service (SIGTERM doesn't work, only SIGKILL does) always restores situation back to normal (movie instantly resumes playing), but it's only a short time before memory leaks again and window grays out. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: unity 4.22.0-0ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3 Architecture: amd64 CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,compiztoolbox,mousepoll,move,imgpng,gnomecompat,regex,grid,vpswitch,animation,expo,wall,unitymtgrabhandles,place,workarounds,session,resize,snap,ezoom,fade,scale,unityshell] Date: Wed Oct 26 20:03:47 2011 InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Beta amd64 (20100902.1) SourcePackage: unity UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-14 (12 days ago) + --- + ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4 + Architecture: amd64 + DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 + InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Beta amd64 (20100902.1) + Package: smplayer 0.6.9-4 + PackageArchitecture: amd64 + ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4 + Tags: oneiric + Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64 + UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-14 (24 days ago) + UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lp lpadmin plugdev sambashare vboxusers -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/882181 Title: smplayer unusable with mplayer 1.x To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/smplayer/+bug/882181/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
