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On Sunday 24 February 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: |
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> Hi! |
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> I noticed a very annoying behavior. I've got a headless server |
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> (Athlon 64 X2) which primarily acts as a personal video recorder |
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> using mencoder and at-daemon. In its idle-time it's supposed to run |
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> a dnet-client. |
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> Then I've got a laptop (64bit Celeron, single core) on which I play |
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> those video files from my server over NFS. |
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> So far, so good. My problem is: Neither of them can handle |
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> recording/playing video while there is any background activity. |
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> That means I have to stop the dnet-daemon and suspend any emerges |
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> on my laptop. If I don't, both mencoder and mplayer loose sync of |
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> audio and video and drops frames. |
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By dnet-daemon you mean dnetc, right? If you run dnetc with nice 19 |
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and simultaneously something that uses as much CPU as it can get |
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(like a fractals generator) at nice 0, you will see that dnetc still |
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uses around 6% CPU. But it does go down to 6%. The remaining CPU |
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should be enough for watching video. Disclaimer: I have never used |
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mplayer on a 64bit system. It might have issues there. |
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Since you are playing the video over NFS you do so over the network. |
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Maybe a stupid question: You do use FastEthernet without any hub, |
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right? Switches are alright but hubs are evil. |
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A possiible work around might be to increase the buffer in mplayer to |
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something around 1MB. |
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Uwe |
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http://www.linux.org.na/ |
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SysEx (Pty) Ltd.: |
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http://www.SysEx.com.na/ |
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