On 12 May 2012 11:05, Alex Schuster <wo...@wonkology.org> wrote: > Norman Invasion writes: > >> On 11 May 2012 21:40, Alex Schuster <wo...@wonkology.org> wrote: >> > Finally, I found something. It's Dolphin! > [...] >> Apologies: I haven't followed this thread from the beginning, > > Which was quite long ago :) > >> but do you have any advanced power management features >> enabled (especially hard drive related)? > > My drives spin down after 30 minutes of idle time, but this never happens > for the system drive. The CPU is set to throttle down from 3600 MHz to > 1400 MHz with the ondemand governor, but changing to performance governor > makes no change. > >> When I pull the power cord on my lap-top, it goes into all kinds >> of nutty "power-saving" and mplayer has long pauses while >> the drive spins back up. > > Yeah, but those pauses are much longer than the small interruptions that > are a fraction of a second mostly, and do not happen 15 times per minute. > And it only happens when MPlayer is started from Dolphin. Well, mainly, > when there is much system load, I also had small interruptions when I run > mplayer from the command line, but they are much much less frequent, and > do not happen under normal circumstances, like when doing emerges while > playing videos. >
I'm just recalling that I get stuttering audio in freebsd, which is caused by what-I-don't-know, but only happens when the CPU load is low. Firing up burncpu or doing useless recompiles ameliorates it.
