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 1ST1MO-0002fB-7f for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 12 May 2012 01:43:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C0D5AE07E8; Sat, 12 May 2012 01:42:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx.virtyou.com (mx.virtyou.com [178.33.32.244]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDFD1E07B9 for ; Sat, 12 May 2012 01:40:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from weird.wonkology.org (xdsl-78-35-133-235.netcologne.de [78.35.133.235]) (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 ED5ECDC041 for ; Sat, 12 May 2012 03:40:55 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 03:40:46 +0200 From: Alex Schuster To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs [SOLVED, sort of] Message-ID: <20120512034046.35aae496@weird.wonkology.org> In-Reply-To: <20120509214419.34d6bbe4@weird.wonkology.org> References: <20120216162948.7eea6070@weird.wonkology.org> <20120218180407.74055f5e@weird.wonkology.org> <20120218220521.1278e023@bluewin.ch> <1705219.vsiCQe2Sr8@weird> <20120507144134.4ea24fc3@weird.wonkology.org> <20120507231123.49125d30@weird.wonkology.org> <20120509214419.34d6bbe4@weird.wonkology.org> 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: 03d482c7-e20d-443d-975d-f8aada952120 X-Archives-Hash: 4c7c227104e895b90b4163c70271eb9f Finally, I found something. It's Dolphin! I've done some longer testing, always playing the same video parallel with a dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/10G bs=1M count=10000, in mplayer, for a minute, several times. When I do this by opening the file in Dolphin, I get about 15 interruptions, some for longer than a second. Started on the command line, there are very few, I can play the video for minutes without a gap. Hooray! In KDE, I usually play videos by opening them in Dolphin. I exchanged 'mplayer %U' by 'xterm -T MPLAYER -e mplayer %U' in the settings, now mplayer runs in a terminal, and all is fine. I created a window rule so the terminal automatically minimizes. Cool! It only happens in mplayer and mplayer2. Other players work fine, but I like mplayer best, and prefer to run it without any window decoration. Now, would this be an MPlayer problem, or one of Dolphin? Wonko