[MPlayer-users] Playback problems - humm

[alvin.mpeg at ns.linux-1u.net]

hi ya

> >How much RAM? Any other jobs running? Celeron 400 is a bit puny but
> >P3-933 runs great here.

i use hundreds of mini-itx based via C3-800 w/ 256MB of mem
and 20G ata100 and onboard video and mplayer-*pre[1,2,3] all works fine

make sure you have dma turned on --  ( using_dma = 1 )
	hdparm -iv /dev/hda | grep dma

- which distro are you using ?
- which kernel are you using ?

- works for me with slackware-9.1, suse-9.0  and linux-2.4.2[3,4,5]

c ya
alvin

> I have only 128 MB, with the Celeron 400, I still have about 20% idle (says
> top). With the PIII even more than 50% idle! It's an embedded system with
> VIA chipset. Video adapter is a S3 SavagaPro included in this VIA-Twister
> chip. Also I tried different -vo settings (x11, xv, vesa, ...), doesn't
> help.
> Sometimes (about 1 out of 50) it works. When pressing spacebar while it
> once works to pause the playback, and then start the playback again, it
> doesn't play fluidly anymore.
> Maybe it's some kind of powermanagement, cpu idle calls, or whatever?
>