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Klenje

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From: Europe

Registered: 2007-09-12

Posts: 36

Video freezes every x seconds

Hi, I'm having problems playing videos on my laptop. In fact I've tried with both smplayer and kaffeine, but video always freeze for a second every 20 seconds or so, and that's quite noticeable. I don't think the problem lies in cpu, since it's not busy at 100%, but instead in the video drivers. I'm using radeon open source drivers on an ATI X700. Any suggestion? Or maybe it's a driver's problem, so there's no woraround?
thanks in advance

vogt

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From: Toronto, Canada

Registered: 2006-11-25

Posts: 389

Re: Video freezes every x seconds

You could try the command line mplayer: it is a bit more verbose about things that aren't right (like sound).

I'm pretty sure that you can show videos with the vesa driver (just replace ati or radeon with vesa in /etc/X11/xorg.conf), and if you have the problem with the vesa driver, you cannot blame the video driver.

venox

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From: Curitiba, Brazil

Registered: 2003-08-23

Posts: 137

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Re: Video freezes every x seconds

What codec the video you're trying to play uses? mplayer doesn't handle H.264 with a decent frame rate here, for example. (but I've never had any issues with another video codec but H.264)
Also, you might want to try other video output drivers like xv, gl, etc.

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Klenje

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From: Europe

Registered: 2007-09-12

Posts: 36

Re: Video freezes every x seconds

well, I've tried with vesa and I have no freezes at all, so it must be a problem with ati drivers... should I file a bug? or maybe it's due to my xorg.conf, because it seems strange that no one else has such problems
thanks
@venox: no, it was just a divx video with mp3 audio, and the problem is there also with kaffeine which uses xine