[MPlayer-users] Unpredictable high CPU load while streaming invalid URLs

[Anirban Dutta Choudhury]

Yeah, it's an old version, but I guess I am doing something wrong with
the command line options. Any idea other than updating to the latest
software?

Anirban

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Anirban Dutta Choudhury
<anirban.duttachoudhury at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am running 8 instances of mplayers with 8 different network cameras.
> Now, if one or more cameras gets disconnected, the mplayers used to
> stay low in CPU load and memory usage. That's exactly what I want. the
> idea is, on ethernet reconnection, the mplayer should play the
> streaming video again.
>
> But, sometimes, the mplayers with invalid urls slowly grow in memory
> consumption and CPU load. It's very much unpredictable and I do not
> know how to reproduce it. Sometimes, it does not happen even if I run
> the system dor 3-4 days continuously. Sometimes this high bus load
> comes in 10-15 minutes.
>
> I am using following command line options:
> -slave -quiet -nosound -nomouseinput -noconsolecontrols -nojoystick
> -loop 0 -cache 8192 skiploopfilter=nonref -benchmark -wid <X11-ID>
> <rtsp-url>
>
> mplayer version: 1.0rc2-4.3.2
>
> Regards,
> Anirban
>
> --
> Anirban
>



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