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hello, |
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can you send us your /etc/make.conf ? |
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br |
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tomas |
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Mike Mazur wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I'm having choppy video playback in mplayer, vlc and also in Firefox |
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> on YouTube and the like. I notice a video freeze every 1-2 seconds or |
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> so, then the video snaps back to where it should be. The audio sounds |
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> fine. Mplayer often spits out a warning message[1]. |
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> I also noticed that typing into forms (like an email in Gmail) in |
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> Firefox, after Firefox has been running a few hours also suffers from |
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> this freeze every 1-2 seconds. |
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> A typical workload is Gnome, Firefox, Claws-Mail, Pidgin, Tomboy, |
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> xmms2 and a bunch of terminals with SSH sessions and irssi. |
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> I have an Intel Core 2 Duo 2GHz with 2 GB of RAM, so this shouldn't be |
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> happening. I'm running kernel 2.6.23-gentoo-r3. I don't remember when |
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> exactly this started, I don't really watch video too often. |
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> Could it be the scheduler with which my kernel is compiled? Currently |
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> it's set to "Preemptible Kernel (Low-Latency Desktop)". |
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> Any ideas? What to start tweaking with? |
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> Thanks for any help, |
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> Mike |
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> [1] Mplayer warning message: |
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> ************************************************ |
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> **** Your system is too SLOW to play this! **** |
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> ************************************************ |
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> Possible reasons, problems, workarounds: |
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> - Most common: broken/buggy _audio_ driver |
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> - Try -ao sdl or use the OSS emulation of ALSA. |
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> - Experiment with different values for -autosync, 30 is a good start. |
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> - Slow video output |
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> - Try a different -vo driver (-vo help for a list) or try -framedrop! |
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> - Slow CPU |
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> - Don't try to play a big DVD/DivX on a slow CPU! Try some of the lavdopts, |
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> e.g. -vfm ffmpeg -lavdopts lowres=1:fast:skiploopfilter=all. |
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> - Broken file |
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> - Try various combinations of -nobps -ni -forceidx -mc 0. |
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> - Slow media (NFS/SMB mounts, DVD, VCD etc) |
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> - Try -cache 8192. |
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> - Are you using -cache to play a non-interleaved AVI file? |
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> - Try -nocache. |
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> Read DOCS/HTML/en/video.html for tuning/speedup tips. |
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> If none of this helps you, read DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html. |
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