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kourosh

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From: England

Registered: 2009-03-10

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MPlayer using full CPU in KDE 4.3.3

I use Dragon Player with Xine to play my videos, but obviously the previews in Dolphin are powered by MPlayer.
For some reason, MPlayer takes up 100% of my CPU, and the video will thus stutter, until I kill MPlayer, then it works.
Anyone else have this problem?

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Zibi1981

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From: Poland

Registered: 2008-01-31

Posts: 720

Re: MPlayer using full CPU in KDE 4.3.3

The same problem here on KDEmod 4.4. When I enter a folder containing video files, especially it happens when those are HD videos (like MKV), suddenly many instances of MPlayer appear and consume all of my CPU power. The only thing that helps is killing them with

killall mplayer

It's very annoying, because it happens also when I try to view those video files in another player, like VLC.

Last edited by Zibi1981 (2010-02-15 16:52:59)

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kourosh

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From: England

Registered: 2009-03-10

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Re: MPlayer using full CPU in KDE 4.3.3

I get this on and off now, but I've become used to just killing all mplayer processes :S
Probably should file a bug.

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wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

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Re: MPlayer using full CPU in KDE 4.3.3

I get this on and off now, but I've become used to just killing all mplayer processes :S
Probably should file a bug.

try changing video output, try xv, gl, gl2 or even vdpau if you have an nvidia card. the later is the best.

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