Alex Schuster wrote: <<< SNIP >>> > Now this is really annoying. I watch small clips mostly, and can live > with that, and when I want to watch stuff with others, I copy the file to > tmpfs, which seems to help a lot. > > But now I found another solution: NOT USING KDE. > > When X crashed (trying to make the old Unreal game play), I fired up > another window manager, and when I played a video in there, there was no > problem at all. So, I have another workaround. > > But does anyone have an idea, why running KDE is the problem? Disabling > desktop effects does not help. > > I must be totally crazy because I still want to use KDE, despite the big > trouble it gives me nearly every day. Yes, most things work fine now, but > there are many many little problems, daily application crashes, and every > time I log in I fear that the desktop won't come up. 8G of RAM was not > enough to avoid swapping, so now I have 16G, that's fine, I no longer > care about kwin using 1G of my RAM. Oh, and I no longer use KMail, after > it ate thousands of mails I just wanted to move. No problem, they were > not important, but I no longer trust the KDEPIM suite. And it seems the > developers do not care about this, the bug report got no replies. > > But anyway. Any idea why it only happens with KDE? I will ask on the KDE > mailing list, but I thought I post here first, maybe there's something > Gentoo-specific going on here. > > Wonko > >
When I first built this rig, I ran into this issue as well. What I did was tell smplayer, in my case, to cache more of the video. I have mine set to cache 6Mbs and it plays fine even on HD videos. This may not help you but if you have not tried it yet, may be worth a shot. It is aggravating when it does this tho. Also, there was a thread a good while back with this issue and their fix was to do a emerge -e world with everything optimized for their CPU and such. May be worth thinking about at least. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"
