Video playback pauses on 8.0 amd64

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tankist02

I have 2 machines with 8.0 amd64 installed - 2-core and 4-core Intel. On both computers video playback pauses for a few seconds when playing a large (e.g. VOB) file using mplayer or vlc. I use KDE4 and nv driver. Any ideas where to look to resolve the issue? For example, should I try different video drivers: nouveau or NVidia beta for amd64?
 
The nvidia beta works fine. Haven't noticed any weirdness in full-screen video playback.
 
tankist02 said:
On both computers video playback pauses for a few seconds when playing a large (e.g. VOB) file using mplayer or vlc.
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Usually mplayer is quite vocal about playback problems. Have you tried launching mplayer from a terminal to see if mplayer throws any error messages when it pauses?

Adam
 
I get significant pauses in audio playback, running 8.x amd64 on a Turion X2 since Feb. From running sysutils/htop, the hiccoughs seem to occur when the mplayer, xmms, or mp3blaster process switches CPUs. I don't have a solution, though.
 
fronclynne said:
I get significant pauses in audio playback, running 8.x amd64 on a Turion X2 since Feb. From running sysutils/htop, the hiccoughs seem to occur when the mplayer, xmms, or mp3blaster process switches CPUs. I don't have a solution, though.
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I've never witnessed that. Maybe try using cpuset(1) as a temp fix?
 
tankist02 said:
I have 2 machines with 8.0 amd64 installed - 2-core and 4-core Intel. On both computers video playback pauses for a few seconds when playing a large (e.g. VOB) file using mplayer or vlc. I use KDE4 and nv driver. Any ideas where to look to resolve the issue? For example, should I try different video drivers: nouveau or NVidia beta for amd64?
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Try the nVidia blog it's way better than the crappy nv driver.
 
It looks like corrupted VOB files. I couldn't reproduce pausing with other files. When I burned the problematic DVD it had problems playing in a DVD player.

Thanks everybody for help.
 
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