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: Sat, 12 May 2012 15:07:12
Message-Id: 20120512170512.4a90eab7@weird.wonkology.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs [SOLVED, sort of] by Norman Invasion
1 Norman Invasion writes:
2
3 > On 11 May 2012 21:40, Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org> wrote:
4 > > Finally, I found something. It's Dolphin!
5 [...]
6 > Apologies: I haven't followed this thread from the beginning,
7
8 Which was quite long ago :)
9
10 > but do you have any advanced power management features
11 > enabled (especially hard drive related)?
12
13 My drives spin down after 30 minutes of idle time, but this never happens
14 for the system drive. The CPU is set to throttle down from 3600 MHz to
15 1400 MHz with the ondemand governor, but changing to performance governor
16 makes no change.
17
18 > When I pull the power cord on my lap-top, it goes into all kinds
19 > of nutty "power-saving" and mplayer has long pauses while
20 > the drive spins back up.
21
22 Yeah, but those pauses are much longer than the small interruptions that
23 are a fraction of a second mostly, and do not happen 15 times per minute.
24 And it only happens when MPlayer is started from Dolphin. Well, mainly,
25 when there is much system load, I also had small interruptions when I run
26 mplayer from the command line, but they are much much less frequent, and
27 do not happen under normal circumstances, like when doing emerges while
28 playing videos.
29
30 Wonko

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Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs [SOLVED, sort of] Norman Invasion <invasivenorman@×××××.com>