[MPlayer-users] MPlayer gets stuck like a record skipping

[Marty]

The first stream works without skips on my old laptop and the second stream gives me a connection refused error.

I am using Slackware 10, kernel 2.4.26, 350 MHz AMD K-6 Compaq Presario 1270 laptop, 96 Megs of RAM, DSL connection and  MPlayer 1.0pre6-3.3.4

Many programs that are pre-compiled don't work on my old laptop so I usually have to build from source.  MPlayer was that way and I had to do a ./configure with alsa support.

Marty

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:38:29 -0800
"Kirchner, Patrick" <Patrick.Kirchner at earthtech.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>  
> I'm having a problem with MPlayer on an older/slow laptop.  I'm not sure if
> the speed the laptop's speed is somehow causing the problem, but any number
> of different streams seem to eventually get stuck in a loop.  It sounds like
> a skipping record, replaying the same 1/8 of a second sound byte over and
> over and over and well you get the idea...
>  
> Here are some details:
> Debian 3.1
> Kernel 2.6.10
> MPlayer 1.0pre6-3.3.5
>  
> Here are some of the streams that loop/crash on this machine, but not on my
> other computer (same OS, Kernel & MPlayer version BTW):
> mms://wamu.wm.llnwd.net/wamu_wamu
> mms://www.wuwm.com:2403
>  
> I'm not sure how to debug the problem since I have to control-C to end the
> loop.
>  
> If anyone could offer me some tips or suggestions I'd be most appreciative.
>  
> Thanks much,
>  
> Patrick.
>