MPlayer & Gnome 2.4

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 12:58, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7 at cox.net>
> Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2003 8:51 PM
> 
> 
> > On Thu, 6 Nov 2003 10:12:58 -0800, Drew Tomlinson
> > <drew at mykitchentable.net> wrote:
> >
> > > I used to use Gnome 2.2 on a 4.8 box and run mplayer.  This
> arrangement
> > > worked fine.  However, since upgrading to Gnome 2.4, I've had
> problems
> > > with mplayer.  Video runs smooth for about 2 - 3 minutes and then
> begins
> > > pausing briefly every 5 - 10 seconds.  The pause lasts a fraction of
> a
> > > second and then catches up.  The audio is fine.  Sometimes the audio
> and
> > > video get out of sync but catches up over time.  Options enabled are
> > > frame dropping, hard frame dropping, and autosynch.  I'm using the
> xv
> > > (default?) video driver and the esd audio driver.  The same stream
> on
> > > the same network from the same server does not have this problem in
> > > Windows Media Player on a Windows box.  This behavior is consistent
> > > across various codecs and streams.
> > >
> > > In the beginning, I suspected the problem was introduced in an
> mplayer
> > > upgrade but now I think it might have come from the Gnome upgrade.
> > > Although the box is a 2.2 GHz Pentium 4 processor with 256K RAM, I
> > > suspect it can't keep up.  I normally used gmplayer but tried a
> regular
> > > mplayer session started from a terminal window.  What I noticed is
> that
> > > the counters pause when the video pauses.  In fact, the whole
> machine
> > > pauses.
> > >
> > > I've tried running 'top' but I don't see any excessive cpu usage.
> > > mplayer only uses around 23% of the cpu and the rest of the system
> is
> > > only using 8% - 10%  But maybe I don't see anything here because a
> usage
> > > spike is gone before the next top update?
> > >
> > > Anyway, any suggestions on things to check to confirm or deny my
> > > suspicions?  Has anyone else experienced this?
> >
> > I use MPlayer a lot and I don't have any problem with it beside
> Metacity
> > VS MPlayer. However, maybe you should try to recompile/reinstall
> MPlayer
> > to see if it will help.
> 
> What is the issue with Metacity?  Maybe that's my problem?  I know Gnome
> 2.2 used sawfish but 2.4 uses Metacity.

Actually, GNOME 2.2 used Metacity as well.  You can still switch to
sawfish even in GNOME 2.4.

Joe

> 
> I've tried recompile/reinstall of mplayer but it hasn't helped.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Drew
> 
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