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 1STCX5-0005Iq-Dn for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 12 May 2012 13:38:51 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 64867E0A88; Sat, 12 May 2012 13:38:28 +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 61B11E0A61 for ; Sat, 12 May 2012 13:36:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by obbuo19 with SMTP id uo19so5751418obb.40 for ; Sat, 12 May 2012 06:36:16 -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=9MPvbl/32pNs5SSuTHHh0SzokftmO1t7lmRsu81I820=; b=uHpH16klCpnOh+olhQg4ZTWaSmwAHfVecdef3BLXhmpqZLOCQDwdBxJinn1C0Lxdws /KOWm/yNL4tzTN+vDOgv30vINoz3mmHUcAvoyfEVAFR7SGsAsRNqP+XaZl3smpZnUko8 U8EKHTymH07wSRQOiaP+EJgc2ZmExqhQH0p+mxpwiHJKDnudQHZhDQKF4SfciGa2bvK5 Mjo1KQI2eg7Sx/QkMev21ROPJkRGgt/rjue1lxSmvcO2Xe+KJIrbBMceZCXoFrb33scz cVpoiq2VPJOGwRillgs+g1Ft9BHPllVwgbEeKiPCcq2An4RGqUVxt+WBUNBM52lgxjzw OIig== 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 10.60.7.200 with SMTP id l8mr2493470oea.52.1336829776498; Sat, 12 May 2012 06:36:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.182.182.74 with HTTP; Sat, 12 May 2012 06:36:16 -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> Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 09:36:16 -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: 146a6571-041f-4a3f-9d69-c134c533c620 X-Archives-Hash: c03e21a934aa1635f35c482a9bb7f424 On 11 May 2012 21:40, 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? > Apologies: I haven't followed this thread from the beginning, but do you have any advanced power management features enabled (especially hard drive related)? 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.