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 1STETS-0008Ih-Tx for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 12 May 2012 15:43:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0FD6FE060D; Sat, 12 May 2012 15:43:00 +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 27C18E05ED for ; Sat, 12 May 2012 15:41:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: by obbuo19 with SMTP id uo19so5903541obb.40 for ; Sat, 12 May 2012 08:41:33 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=ZCLeSTEgvR/jYEA8NI0HuhnuVPH4nGBYB5adfI1oBXs=; b=nXzhcyb7ZyuZkDb84wSb0nWk8cgmopcOE0xaSIA/KUXkirgfiKOZdnPX2C5PsWkK5T /umQSKf1TAnrYzs4mQmSCoif6L3ez/P0rocPx26lDggfnwEckGjcqcFMhewiOp6+6A+/ 28GtWCrDAeA+Jqhr8ghO0rHwTx2M/sev86xfS6HT/Pg5FlbNmjwns3c07TmmwJ7egBI2 CVHvHz5iHqeMXoxY6G1OqKjtyMBzyRSG1uDx83T3NfJr5PMDawZjB15RzjFVrIKg3+a0 D1h2fGCK5dGpgniZRYl0MfhfugYLx+3vf793/78TMufAMJsLTtHEvA8ZIbZX0tWMMfYO pUDw== 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 Received: by 10.182.77.167 with SMTP id t7mr2960522obw.10.1336837293599; Sat, 12 May 2012 08:41:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.182.182.74 with HTTP; Sat, 12 May 2012 08:41:33 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20120512170512.4a90eab7@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> <20120512170512.4a90eab7@weird.wonkology.org> Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 11:41:33 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs [SOLVED, sort of] From: Norman Invasion To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: b461e8b1-a03d-48d6-b300-61611949e423 X-Archives-Hash: 3383b0e8b9cdee13e96215ff5f51b07f On 12 May 2012 11:05, Alex Schuster wrote: > Norman Invasion writes: > >> On 11 May 2012 21:40, Alex Schuster 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. > I'm just recalling that I get stuttering audio in freebsd, which is caused by what-I-don't-know, but only happens when the CPU load is low. Firing up burncpu or doing useless recompiles ameliorates it.