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On 12 May 2012 11:05, Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> Norman Invasion writes: |
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>> On 11 May 2012 21:40, Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org> wrote: |
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>> > Finally, I found something. It's Dolphin! |
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> [...] |
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>> Apologies: I haven't followed this thread from the beginning, |
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> Which was quite long ago :) |
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>> but do you have any advanced power management features |
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>> enabled (especially hard drive related)? |
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> My drives spin down after 30 minutes of idle time, but this never happens |
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> for the system drive. The CPU is set to throttle down from 3600 MHz to |
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> 1400 MHz with the ondemand governor, but changing to performance governor |
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> makes no change. |
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>> When I pull the power cord on my lap-top, it goes into all kinds |
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>> of nutty "power-saving" and mplayer has long pauses while |
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>> the drive spins back up. |
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> Yeah, but those pauses are much longer than the small interruptions that |
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> are a fraction of a second mostly, and do not happen 15 times per minute. |
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> And it only happens when MPlayer is started from Dolphin. Well, mainly, |
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> when there is much system load, I also had small interruptions when I run |
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> mplayer from the command line, but they are much much less frequent, and |
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> do not happen under normal circumstances, like when doing emerges while |
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> playing videos. |
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I'm just recalling that I get stuttering audio in freebsd, which is caused |
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by what-I-don't-know, but only happens when the CPU load is low. |
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Firing up burncpu or doing useless recompiles ameliorates it. |
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