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On Sat, 12 May 2012 11:41:33 -0400 |
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Norman Invasion <invasivenorman@×××××.com> wrote: |
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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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> > |
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> > My drives spin down after 30 minutes of idle time, but this never |
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> > happens for the system drive. The CPU is set to throttle down from |
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> > 3600 MHz to 1400 MHz with the ondemand governor, but changing to |
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> > performance governor makes no change. |
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> > |
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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 |
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> > that are a fraction of a second mostly, and do not happen 15 times |
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> > per minute. And it only happens when MPlayer is started from |
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> > Dolphin. Well, mainly, when there is much system load, I also had |
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> > small interruptions when I run mplayer from the command line, but |
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> > they are much much less frequent, and do not happen under normal |
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> > circumstances, like when doing emerges while playing videos. |
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> I'm just recalling that I get stuttering audio in freebsd, which is |
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> caused by what-I-don't-know, but only happens when the CPU load is |
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> low. Firing up burncpu or doing useless recompiles ameliorates it. |
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I was getting stuttering audio from a sizeable % of my .avi files |
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served from a FreeBSD NAS. The likely cause became obvious when I |
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noticed that it was only on .avi files - all real containers were |
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fine[1]. |
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mencoder -ovc copy -oac copy -of avi -o <new_file> <old_file> |
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fixed it permanently. I'm won't go so far as to say this might apply |
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to your issue, but sometimes the simplest things are the actual |
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causes :-) |
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[1] .avi files are notorious for this shit. It's what happens when you |
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are Microsoft and you release any old crappy format without consulting |
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the other experts out there (who will always outnumber you) |
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Alan McKinnnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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