[gentoo-user] mplayer is slow in xfce but Ok in other X

[gentoo-user] mplayer is slow in xfce but Ok in other X

[Chuanwen Wu]

Hi everybody!
My mplayer in gnome is OK! But after i switch to xfce4.39,everytime i
start it ,it will take me 1~2minutes,and can't do anything until it's
OK!
Is there anybody else having the same problem?



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Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer is slow in xfce but Ok in other X

[Jeremy Olexa]

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Chuanwen Wu wrote:
> Hi everybody!
> My mplayer in gnome is OK! But after i switch to xfce4.39,everytime i
> start it ,it will take me 1~2minutes,and can't do anything until it's
> OK!
> Is there anybody else having the same problem?

I use xfce4 and here is what my mplayer is compiled with:

% emerge -pv mplayer

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre8  USE="X aac alsa dga dvd
dvdread encode esd fbcon gif jpeg mad mmx openal opengl oss png sdl sse
sse2 truetype vorbis win32codecs xmms xvid -3dfx -3dnow -3dnowext -aalib
- -arts -bidi -bindist -bl -cdparanoia -cpudetection -custom-cflags -debug
- -directfb -doc -dts -dv -dvb -ggi -gtk -i8x0 -ipv6 -jack -joystick
- -libcaca -lirc -live -livecd -lzo -matrox -mmxext -musepack -nas -nvidia
- -real -rtc -samba -speex -svga -tga -theora -unicode -v4l -v4l2 -x264
- -xanim -xinerama -xv -xvmc" 0 kB

I had problems with the 'xv' USE flag awhile back, I didn't look into it
any further but it helped after I compiled it without that flag..

HTH.

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Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer is slow in xfce but Ok in other X

[Walter Dnes]

On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 11:40:37PM +0800, Chuanwen Wu wrote

> My mplayer in gnome is OK! But after i switch to xfce4.39,everytime
> i start it ,it will take me 1~2minutes,and can't do anything until
> it's OK!

  Here's a guess; you are running mplayer with different parameters.  A
site that streams content slowly will take a minute or two to fill up
enough of the cache to start playback.  The GNOME link might point to a
different mplayer config file with a much smaller cache setting, and/or
a smaller threshold before playback begins.  Can you look at your GNOME
launcher that starts mplayer, and see what the parameters are?

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Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer is slow in xfce but Ok in other X

[Chuanwen Wu]

i am different:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre8  USE="X alsa arts dvd
encode esd gif gtk ipv6 jpeg mad opengl oss png real sdl truetype
vorbis win32codecs xv -3dfx -3dnow -3dnowext -aac -aalib -bidi
-bindist -bl -cdparanoia -cpudetection -custom-cflags -debug -dga
-directfb -doc -dts -dv -dvb -dvdread -fbcon -ggi -i8x0 -jack
-joystick -libcaca -lirc -live -livecd -lzo -matrox -mmx -mmxext
-musepack -nas -nvidia -openal -rtc -samba -speex -sse -sse2 -svga
-tga -theora -unicode -v4l -v4l2 -x264 -xanim -xinerama -xmms -xvid
-xvmc" 0 kB

But how to explain that my mplayer is OK in gnome?

2006/6/25, Jeremy Olexa <olexa@cs.umn.edu>:
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> Chuanwen Wu wrote:
> > Hi everybody!
> > My mplayer in gnome is OK! But after i switch to xfce4.39,everytime i
> > start it ,it will take me 1~2minutes,and can't do anything until it's
> > OK!
> > Is there anybody else having the same problem?
>
> I use xfce4 and here is what my mplayer is compiled with:
>
> % emerge -pv mplayer
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild   R   ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre8  USE="X aac alsa dga dvd
> dvdread encode esd fbcon gif jpeg mad mmx openal opengl oss png sdl sse
> sse2 truetype vorbis win32codecs xmms xvid -3dfx -3dnow -3dnowext -aalib
> - -arts -bidi -bindist -bl -cdparanoia -cpudetection -custom-cflags -debug
> - -directfb -doc -dts -dv -dvb -ggi -gtk -i8x0 -ipv6 -jack -joystick
> - -libcaca -lirc -live -livecd -lzo -matrox -mmxext -musepack -nas -nvidia
> - -real -rtc -samba -speex -svga -tga -theora -unicode -v4l -v4l2 -x264
> - -xanim -xinerama -xv -xvmc" 0 kB
>
> I had problems with the 'xv' USE flag awhile back, I didn't look into it
> any further but it helped after I compiled it without that flag..
>
> HTH.
>
> - --
> Jeremy Olexa
> (olexa@cs.umn.edu)
> Office: EE/CS 1-201
> CS/IT Systems Staff
> University of Minnesota
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Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer is slow in xfce but Ok in other X

[Chuanwen Wu]

I found that the problem is the gmplayer,but no mplayer.
I start mplayer from terminal,everything is fluent.
Is there any other way to use mplayer in xfce(just no use gmplayer)??

2006/6/26, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>:
> On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 11:40:37PM +0800, Chuanwen Wu wrote
>
> > My mplayer in gnome is OK! But after i switch to xfce4.39,everytime
> > i start it ,it will take me 1~2minutes,and can't do anything until
> > it's OK!
>
>   Here's a guess; you are running mplayer with different parameters.  A
> site that streams content slowly will take a minute or two to fill up
> enough of the cache to start playback.  The GNOME link might point to a
> different mplayer config file with a much smaller cache setting, and/or
> a smaller threshold before playback begins.  Can you look at your GNOME
> launcher that starts mplayer, and see what the parameters are?
>
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> Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> In linux /sbin/init is Job #1
> My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca
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Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer is slow in xfce but Ok in other X

[Walter Dnes]

On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 04:43:55AM +0000, Chuanwen Wu wrote
> I found that the problem is the gmplayer,but no mplayer.
> I start mplayer from terminal,everything is fluent.
> Is there any other way to use mplayer in xfce(just no use gmplayer)??

  There are 2 possible solutions for your problem...

  1) I assume that gmplayer is a front-end to mplayer.  Find out what
parameters gmplayer passes to mplayer, and change them.

  2) I don't know if xfce has a built-in icon or launch-panel.  I run
Blackbox, and I use pypanel as my launcher/panel.  Other panels, like
gnome-panel, seem to want to build 90% of GNOME, which defeats the
purpose of running Blackbox.  I put stuff I use a lot into the panel.
You have to edit a text file, but I don't make changes all that often.

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Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer is slow in xfce but Ok in other X

[Daniel Iliev]

Chuanwen Wu wrote:
> I found that the problem is the gmplayer,but no mplayer.
> I start mplayer from terminal,everything is fluent.
> Is there any other way to use mplayer in xfce(just no use gmplayer)??

Have you tried to run "gmplayer" (not "mplayer") from terminal and check
for error messages in the terminal?
Have you tried to run gmplayer like a different user and see if the
problem remains or disappears?
There should be something that indicates where the problem is.


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