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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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> I've done some longer testing, always playing the same video parallel |
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> with a dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/10G bs=1M count=10000, in mplayer, for a |
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> minute, several times. When I do this by opening the file in Dolphin, I |
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> get about 15 interruptions, some for longer than a second. Started on the |
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> command line, there are very few, I can play the video for minutes |
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> without a gap. Hooray! |
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> In KDE, I usually play videos by opening them in Dolphin. I exchanged |
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> 'mplayer %U' by 'xterm -T MPLAYER -e mplayer %U' in the settings, now |
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> mplayer runs in a terminal, and all is fine. I created a window rule so |
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> the terminal automatically minimizes. Cool! |
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> It only happens in mplayer and mplayer2. Other players work fine, but I |
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> like mplayer best, and prefer to run it without any window decoration. |
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> Now, would this be an MPlayer problem, or one of Dolphin? |
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Apologies: I haven't followed this thread from the beginning, |
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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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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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