MPlayer & Gnome 2.4

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 12:47:04 -0600, Jeremy Messenger <mezz7 at cox.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 09:58:28 -0800, Drew Tomlinson 
> <drew at mykitchentable.net> 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.
>
> The issue is MPlayer and should be fixed in the 1.0 as I am told. It's 
> somewhere in the freebsd-gnome archive. However, MPlayer still will work 
> with MPlayer but it flood a lot of same error message when you move the
-------^^^^^^^

Err, I mean Metacity... ;-)

Cheers,
Mezz


> MPlayer around. Also, it has some weird bug with the full screen. If I 
> use Fluxbox's wm and the full screen works as it's supposed to be.
>
>> I've tried recompile/reinstall of mplayer but it hasn't helped.
>
> Ok, darn then I don't know what else.
>
> Cheers,
> Mezz
>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Drew


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