Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs [SOLVED, sort of]

[Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org>]

Norman Invasion writes:

> On 11 May 2012 21:40, Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org> wrote:
> > Finally, I found something. It's Dolphin!
[...]
> Apologies: I haven't followed this thread from the beginning,

Which was quite long ago :)

> but do you have any advanced power management features
> enabled (especially hard drive related)?

My drives spin down after 30 minutes of idle time, but this never happens
for the system drive. The CPU is set to throttle down from 3600 MHz to
1400 MHz with the ondemand governor, but changing to performance governor
makes no change.

> When I pull the power cord on my lap-top, it goes into all kinds
> of nutty "power-saving" and mplayer has long pauses while
> the drive spins back up.

Yeah, but those pauses are much longer than the small interruptions that
are a fraction of a second mostly, and do not happen 15 times per minute.
And it only happens when MPlayer is started from Dolphin. Well, mainly,
when there is much system load, I also had small interruptions when I run
mplayer from the command line, but they are much much less frequent, and
do not happen under normal circumstances, like when doing emerges while
playing videos.

	Wonko