[MPlayer-users] Video Streaming/H.323

[Daniel Sadoc Menasche]

Hi,

How are you streaming video?  What commands are you launching at the 
client/server side?

I´m writing my own video client/server application, which calls mplayer as 
an external application.  I was  not able reproduce the problem you 
mentioned, because I have not a laptop/notebook available here, and I´m 
using a fast Internet connection.

I have a doubt regarding video streaming: how hard would be to use mplayer 
as a video player on an application such as GnomeMeeting (NetMeeting for 
Linux)?  Is it possible to use mplayer in a video conference application, 
over H.323?

Regards,
Daniel Sadoc



On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Michael Flohr wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> I encounter the following problem:
> Whenever I try to stream something over my slow modem line,
> mplayer goes to 100% CPU usage while the cache is filled.
> I have access to several machines, and it only happens on notebooks
> where I sometimes use the modem line from home. The problem
> does not occur when streaming over faster internet conenctions.
> This is independent of kernel, software (various Redhat and SuSE 
> installations)
> and hardware. The only difference is that it happens on notebooks
> which have a combo card for modem and ethernet. On the ethernet listens
> a DHCP client, but the ethernet is of course not connected, when I am
> online via the modem.
> When mplayer fills its cache, it writes *HUGE* amounts of stuff to stdout
> (or stderr?) about the status of filling the cache, but the high CPU usage
> does not come from this, since running it with -really_quite does suppress
> this output but doesnot have any effect on CPU usage.
> The problem occurs with all recent versions of mplayer I have used
> during the last few months.
> 
> Michael Flohr
> 
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