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 1SRUqD-0003Lj-Rn for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 07 May 2012 20:47:34 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 061C0E09B2; Mon, 7 May 2012 20:46:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ob0-f181.google.com (mail-ob0-f181.google.com [209.85.214.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2698EE08DC for ; Mon, 7 May 2012 20:43:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by obbuo19 with SMTP id uo19so10941013obb.40 for ; Mon, 07 May 2012 13:43:40 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=i1+D31NpsL4DRAAZqOm8TGiza5zdRUMWhPTT1/pXEAE=; b=EXsyySKIikY3bIGVunlY2zOnG9zwyCvJLgNmnvXc0ZJUjbUJ6FYwI4cocstsnvT5N2 MnSJi0fBXpDmPpEimMPGvRFDJWFgTscFswkDTCa/8tPsqTexADqoPQXTFpP141bRxwSg ma3zl/Z82EHehGC5nU4xBVXDRT+46SFOjLsEkeCoX8ZqsKIIvS7FUeFYg0IrGEK22tDd W6HLgiqpL7qjLlLU+I/FoAxa1jysRLJOeVukasejzizH4Z+t4EqS8TbCvcxpD0Dl6ksE 4RzRHCvWnp0aW3UkeFHxY5fcne84Lu+6JaJzbSfNs23OFdc5V0CHVGYqEU//6yfaWmFE QfSw== Received: by 10.182.111.7 with SMTP id ie7mr12961457obb.14.1336423420575; Mon, 07 May 2012 13:43:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-66-173.jan.bellsouth.net. [65.0.66.173]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id h7sm15576367oeh.9.2012.05.07.13.43.38 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 07 May 2012 13:43:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4FA833F9.5030409@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 07 May 2012 15:43:37 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120430 Firefox/12.0 SeaMonkey/2.9.1 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs References: <20120216162948.7eea6070@weird.wonkology.org> <20120218180407.74055f5e@weird.wonkology.org> <20120218220521.1278e023@bluewin.ch> <1705219.vsiCQe2Sr8@weird> <20120507144134.4ea24fc3@weird.wonkology.org> In-Reply-To: <20120507144134.4ea24fc3@weird.wonkology.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 4ff8aad5-d6a5-4286-808b-2ca3126859af X-Archives-Hash: 41c3455d24e8b62b5f3a6b97b0ab2ae4 Alex Schuster wrote: <<< SNIP >>> > Now this is really annoying. I watch small clips mostly, and can live > with that, and when I want to watch stuff with others, I copy the file to > tmpfs, which seems to help a lot. > > But now I found another solution: NOT USING KDE. > > When X crashed (trying to make the old Unreal game play), I fired up > another window manager, and when I played a video in there, there was no > problem at all. So, I have another workaround. > > But does anyone have an idea, why running KDE is the problem? Disabling > desktop effects does not help. > > I must be totally crazy because I still want to use KDE, despite the big > trouble it gives me nearly every day. Yes, most things work fine now, but > there are many many little problems, daily application crashes, and every > time I log in I fear that the desktop won't come up. 8G of RAM was not > enough to avoid swapping, so now I have 16G, that's fine, I no longer > care about kwin using 1G of my RAM. Oh, and I no longer use KMail, after > it ate thousands of mails I just wanted to move. No problem, they were > not important, but I no longer trust the KDEPIM suite. And it seems the > developers do not care about this, the bug report got no replies. > > But anyway. Any idea why it only happens with KDE? I will ask on the KDE > mailing list, but I thought I post here first, maybe there's something > Gentoo-specific going on here. > > Wonko > > 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. This may not help you but if you have not tried it yet, may be worth a shot. It is aggravating when it does this tho. 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. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"