hello, can you send us your /etc/make.conf ?
br tomas Mike Mazur wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having choppy video playback in mplayer, vlc and also in Firefox > on YouTube and the like. I notice a video freeze every 1-2 seconds or > so, then the video snaps back to where it should be. The audio sounds > fine. Mplayer often spits out a warning message[1]. > > I also noticed that typing into forms (like an email in Gmail) in > Firefox, after Firefox has been running a few hours also suffers from > this freeze every 1-2 seconds. > > A typical workload is Gnome, Firefox, Claws-Mail, Pidgin, Tomboy, > xmms2 and a bunch of terminals with SSH sessions and irssi. > > I have an Intel Core 2 Duo 2GHz with 2 GB of RAM, so this shouldn't be > happening. I'm running kernel 2.6.23-gentoo-r3. I don't remember when > exactly this started, I don't really watch video too often. > > Could it be the scheduler with which my kernel is compiled? Currently > it's set to "Preemptible Kernel (Low-Latency Desktop)". > > Any ideas? What to start tweaking with? > > Thanks for any help, > Mike > > > [1] Mplayer warning message: > ************************************************ > **** Your system is too SLOW to play this! **** > ************************************************ > > Possible reasons, problems, workarounds: > - Most common: broken/buggy _audio_ driver > - Try -ao sdl or use the OSS emulation of ALSA. > - Experiment with different values for -autosync, 30 is a good start. > - Slow video output > - Try a different -vo driver (-vo help for a list) or try -framedrop! > - Slow CPU > - Don't try to play a big DVD/DivX on a slow CPU! Try some of the lavdopts, > e.g. -vfm ffmpeg -lavdopts lowres=1:fast:skiploopfilter=all. > - Broken file > - Try various combinations of -nobps -ni -forceidx -mc 0. > - Slow media (NFS/SMB mounts, DVD, VCD etc) > - Try -cache 8192. > - Are you using -cache to play a non-interleaved AVI file? > - Try -nocache. > Read DOCS/HTML/en/video.html for tuning/speedup tips. > If none of this helps you, read DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html. > -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
