[MPlayer-users] occasional jitters

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Wednesday, 17 May 2006 at 04:42, spot at draves.org wrote:
> every 5-20 seconds i get a slight stutter or hiccup in playback.
> there is no audio track in the file, and the machine has plenty of
> power (1 of 2 cores at 10-20%).  no other major apps running and i see
> the same problem even in the gnome failsafe terminal mode.  the
> machine is almost stock, the only configuration i did was putting in
> the nvidia X driver, enabling the RTC clock, and installing latest
> binary RPMs from greysector.  i have experienced similar problems on a
> number of configurations.
> 
> i am very interested in getting stable playback, or even just to hear
> an explanation of how to get a solid frame rate.  i would be happy to
> run without X if i could figure out how.  i tried installing the vidix
> rpm but then i just get no device found.
> 
> thanks for any help you can give me.  best, -spot
> 
> 
>   AMD Athlon 64 X2, 3800+
>   nVidia GFX 5200 128MB DDR 8X AGP
>   MPlayer dev-Fedora-GS-CVS-060418-04:13-4.0.2
>   X.Org 6.8.2, nvidia binary driver version 8756
>   Fedora Core 4, 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp
> 
> source files: http://draves.org/mplayer
> 
> all the files exhibit the same problem, more often in the larger ones.
> mplayer3.avi is the one i really care about, the others are just
> scaled down versions for testing.
> 
> output from mplayer, xdpyinfo, cpuinfo, and mplayer -v below.
[...]
> % mplayer -v -fps 30 -monitoraspect 16:9 -fs 00202=10001=10001=10001.avi
> MPlayer dev-Fedora-GS-CVS-060418-04:13-4.0.2 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team

Why are you forcing fps to 30? Try without this.
Regards,
R.

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