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#1 2011-03-13 02:06:46

b0uncyfr0
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Registered: 2008-05-11
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Smplayer player stuttering..

Not exactly a newbie but i think someone will know how to fix this. Its probably something simple. I got Smplayer set up with vaapi:gl , everythings working fine except when a video is playing in the background and im browsing in chrome. Just using the scrollbar causes smplayer in the background to stutter. Ive tried a few things on the arch wiki catalyst page but nothing worked. Ive set mplayer/smplayer to a higher priority but nothing changed.

Is there to fix the stuttering....

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#2 2011-03-13 07:42:26

trc
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Re: Smplayer player stuttering..

Might be an ATI specific problem, those cards are notoriously bad on Linux compared to NVIDIA.

Maybe you should try switching your video output driver to xv.


~trc

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#3 2011-03-13 10:50:46

whompus
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From: Durham. UK
Registered: 2005-08-09
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Re: Smplayer player stuttering..

Are you using Alsa? I was having stuttering problems with mplayer/smplayer when using alsa, changed to oss and had no problems since.

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#4 2011-03-13 16:21:16

vacant
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Re: Smplayer player stuttering..

The wiki doesn't mention the "tear-free" option available in the catalyst control centre. Have you set that?

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#5 2011-03-14 12:07:30

b0uncyfr0
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Re: Smplayer player stuttering..

I tried xv and the stuttering is gone. But it aint as fast as vaapi. Hmm i might have to compromise. If the the catalyst driver was up to scratch....we can only hope. Changing to OSS had no effect...and yes i do have the tear-free option enabled.

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#6 2011-04-20 16:25:24

chtiland
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From: FR,Nord,Lille
Registered: 2011-04-20
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Re: Smplayer player stuttering..

I also have the same problem, but smplayer stutters each time I focus on another window/program.
I have an nvidia card, I tried to change priority, OSS, nothing change.

Any idea?


HW : AMD Athlon II X4 640 - 8Gb RAM
OS : Archlinux 64bits - Slim - KDE 4

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#7 2011-04-20 19:46:19

brebs
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Re: Smplayer player stuttering..

Try mplayer2. mplayer is better at smooth playback than smplayer, in my experience of nvidia and intel-netbook, and mplayer2 has multi-threaded ffmpeg.

Edit: mpv is what I use currently.

As usual, I would also recommend a BFS-patched kernel such as pf, and add to ~/.bashrc the following:

alias mplayer="ionice -c2 nice -n -4 /usr/bin/mplayer"

With this in /etc/security/limits.d/91-whatever.conf

# To be able to run nice and renice, to increase priority
yourusername           -   nice            -4

Last edited by brebs (2014-03-10 09:53:18)

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#8 2011-04-22 08:32:26

chtiland
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From: FR,Nord,Lille
Registered: 2011-04-20
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Re: Smplayer player stuttering..

Thanks for your answer, installing maplyer2 instead of mplayer solved my problem !

Thanks !


HW : AMD Athlon II X4 640 - 8Gb RAM
OS : Archlinux 64bits - Slim - KDE 4

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