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 1SU3nA-0006LE-FG for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 14 May 2012 22:31:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 27B29E075C; Mon, 14 May 2012 22:30:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-lb0-f181.google.com (mail-lb0-f181.google.com [209.85.217.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18D32E075C for ; Mon, 14 May 2012 22:29:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by lbbgk8 with SMTP id gk8so4145785lbb.40 for ; Mon, 14 May 2012 15:29:05 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=OS2W9jd3/NHeO2BGdonrwR3JJLaOMvos/ysA1jVDqzA=; b=vDXrGAeVkEns1aay6hiMSXCd9Ujt6kzraL1oY9kxU/V9aoACWGk8n0lWCdLs3oSBZi REqEIKs91cLXCpZ62PFemAYH4Bo5G3w2WneQNt+bgYlIG5W9Yk8y7viwcv3e4cXTvE0D uZcylc3a0hVr8iLy5wDpfLdUgGtoNioHQxZ+sGzbdFRJ35Ip3KRim4nIQUse84tUOpzq 0nggWu/9bkThqIqwPI81RNlWIJc1KsSxzNitCmWJXG9Qv3eq5eAI4JgzhSJ19ZEhBqtZ uDZPnnXOAMXBn4ImvNPtfNq7aGimnHTNaj2v5wxcevRfKEj+pwUWCV4e9aqcKFt6OKFW DJ/A== Received: by 10.112.28.230 with SMTP id e6mr4587169lbh.34.1337034544992; Mon, 14 May 2012 15:29:04 -0700 (PDT) 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 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.112.77.4 with HTTP; Mon, 14 May 2012 15:28:44 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20120512034046.35aae496@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> <20120512034046.35aae496@weird.wonkology.org> From: Paul Hartman Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 17:28:44 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 4KSoHtCkYm8v8-rMdbE7aaW56-s Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs [SOLVED, sort of] To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 6084e704-937e-4c36-ba10-591219b44746 X-Archives-Hash: 3c9be4e27cc0cd5c4966e78431f82184 On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: > 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? I wonder if Dolphin is generating thumbnails/preview indexes at the same time you're trying to play, causing resource contention. I wonder if you can disable thumbnail generation by Dolphin or remove the association it has with video files and mplayer.