Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs [SOLVED, sort of]
Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 10:26:48
Message-Id: 20120515122450.4f7bf884@weird.wonkology.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs [SOLVED, sort of] by Paul Hartman
1 Paul Hartman writes:
2
3 > On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org>
4 > wrote:
5 > > Finally, I found something. It's Dolphin!
6 [...]
7 > > Now, would this be an MPlayer problem, or one of Dolphin?
8 >
9 > I wonder if Dolphin is generating thumbnails/preview indexes at the
10 > same time you're trying to play, causing resource contention.
11
12 Sometimes it does that, but that would happen when I play from the command
13 line, too. And now it even works from Dolphin, when it is set to open
14 mplayer in a terminal. So this cannot be the problem. And even if it
15 were, avoiding thumbnails would be a bad workaround only, such operations
16 should not affect video playback.
17
18 Maybe this is somehow related to the other problem I had with mplayer2
19 only, using 100% CPU when idle, only when started from a file manager.
20
21 Wonko