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Chrys349

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From: Romania

Registered: 2011-09-04

Posts: 50

video playback pauses for 100-200ms in mplayer

but it's not the video files, because if I play again the part where the playback pauses occured, they don't occur the second time in the same place... what could be the problem ?

before switching to Arch, I had this problem after I've upgraded to kernel version 3 while I was using Debian Testing, but the playback pauses were occuring much more frequently...

Last edited by Chrys349 (2011-10-31 01:47:06)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: video playback pauses for 100-200ms in mplayer

Anything interesting in mplayer's output? What kind of options are you using? Does it happen at the start, regularly, just for some filetypes?

Chrys349

Member

From: Romania

Registered: 2011-09-04

Posts: 50

Re: video playback pauses for 100-200ms in mplayer

no errors and no messages in mplayer's output

all options are:

vo=xv
ao=alsa
mixer-channel=Master
nolirc=yes
nojoystick=yes
font=Arial
subcp=latin2
subpos=95

so far, I noticed these pauses during playback on every .avi and .mkv files that I've watched, and the pauses are random, they are not occurring twice in the same places in time; ram and cpu are below 100% during playback, even during playback of 720p .mkv's

Last edited by Chrys349 (2011-10-31 02:36:43)

/dev/zero

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2011-10-20

Posts: 1,247

Re: video playback pauses for 100-200ms in mplayer

Are you using gui mplayer or cli? Have you tried using vlc or some other player to make sure it's mplayer specific? Mplayer: what to report gives some other ideas on information you may wish to post here, such as what happens if you run mplayer with verbosity enabled.