From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SRVDp-0007Mb-VP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 07 May 2012 21:11:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 96109E0A5F; Mon, 7 May 2012 21:11:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx.virtyou.com (mx.virtyou.com [178.33.32.244]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C647E09D8 for ; Mon, 7 May 2012 21:09:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from weird.wonkology.org (xdsl-78-35-174-101.netcologne.de [78.35.174.101]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx.virtyou.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AD846DC041 for ; Mon, 7 May 2012 23:09:15 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 23:09:14 +0200 From: Alex Schuster To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs Message-ID: <20120507230914.2e089dd5@weird.wonkology.org> In-Reply-To: <4FA833F9.5030409@gmail.com> References: <20120216162948.7eea6070@weird.wonkology.org> <20120218180407.74055f5e@weird.wonkology.org> <20120218220521.1278e023@bluewin.ch> <1705219.vsiCQe2Sr8@weird> <20120507144134.4ea24fc3@weird.wonkology.org> <4FA833F9.5030409@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 75fedc07-5080-4c7c-b330-76878379e9a4 X-Archives-Hash: 9e506fc4353d107ed19807c8182301aa Dale writes: > When I first built this rig, I ran into this issue as well. What I did > was tell smplayer, in my case, to cache more of the video. I have mine > set to cache 6Mbs and it plays fine even on HD videos. I have cache = 131072 and cache-min=20.0 in .mplayer/config. That's 128MB, this should be enough. Got this hint by James Broadhead some months ago in this thread. > Also, there was a thread a good while back with this issue and their fix > was to do a emerge -e world with everything optimized for their CPU and > such. May be worth thinking about at least. That was Walter Dnes, also in thos thread. But everything should be quite optimized here, with: CFLAGS="-pipe -march=amdfam10 -O2 \ -floop-interchange -floop-strip-mine -floop-block \ -msse -msse2 -msse3 -msse4a -msse4.1 -msse4.2 -m3dnow \ -mcx16 -msahf -maes -mpclmul -mpopcnt -mabm -mlwp -mavx \ --param l1-cache-size=16 \ --param l1-cache-line-size=64 \ --param l2-cache-size=2048" And I do not have high CPU load when playing movies. Wonko