Re: [gentoo-user] Choppy video playback

2008-01-29 Thread Mike Mazur
Hi, On Jan 30, 2008 7:24 AM, Mike Mazur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [ -- SNIP -- ] > For completeness, the .config for my 2.6.23-gentoo-r3 kernel is here: > http://pastebin.ca/881174 Oh, I just found the IO scheduler setting. The scheduler in use is CFQ. I can't find the CPU scheduler though. I g

Re: [gentoo-user] Choppy video playback

2008-01-29 Thread Mike Mazur
Hi James, On Jan 30, 2008 5:26 AM, James Ausmus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [ -- SNIP -- ] > Portage *does not* look at CFLAGS in determining what to rebuild (even > with -uDN) - portage only looks at USE flags and dependency > upgrades/versions. Mike is correct in saying that, for packages to be >

Re: [gentoo-user] Choppy video playback

2008-01-29 Thread Mike Mazur
Hi Ionut, On Jan 28, 2008 5:04 PM, ionut cucu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [ -- SNIP -- ] > Firstly this is an overkill. secondly it has again nothing to do with > the choppy mplayer issue. Think about it: an vo=gl2 means mplayer will > not use the CPU for video rendering but the GPU hence the Cpu >

Re: [gentoo-user] Choppy video playback

2008-01-29 Thread Eric Martin
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 29 January 2008, James Ausmus wrote: Portage *does not* look at CFLAGS in determining what to rebuild (even with -uDN) - portage only looks at USE flags and dependency upgrades/versions. Mike is correct in saying that, for packages to be recompiled with the ne

Re: [gentoo-user] Choppy video playback

2008-01-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 29 January 2008, James Ausmus wrote: > Portage *does not* look at CFLAGS in determining what to rebuild > (even with -uDN) - portage only looks at USE flags and dependency > upgrades/versions. Mike is correct in saying that, for packages to be > recompiled with the new CFLAGS, he would

Re: [gentoo-user] Choppy video playback

2008-01-29 Thread James Ausmus
On Jan 28, 2008 5:57 PM, Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 10:29:47PM +0900, Mike Mazur wrote > > > But the list of packages being recompiled have mostly to do with > > video, audio and transcoding. I understand it's the --newuse flag > > that's causing those, not the

Re: [gentoo-user] Choppy video playback

2008-01-29 Thread ionut cucu
On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:08:02 -0500 "Walter Dnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 09:18:26PM +0900, Mike Mazur wrote > > > The output of `grep flags /proc/cpuinfo` is: > > > > flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr > > pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflus

Re: [gentoo-user] Choppy video playback

2008-01-28 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 10:29:47PM +0900, Mike Mazur wrote > But the list of packages being recompiled have mostly to do with > video, audio and transcoding. I understand it's the --newuse flag > that's causing those, not the additional parameters in CFLAGS. Will > the CFLAGS have benefits on othe

Re: [gentoo-user] Choppy video playback

2008-01-28 Thread Mike Mazur
Hi Walter, Paul, On Jan 28, 2008 11:08 AM, Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [ -- SNIP -- ] > This is to be expected. Since you have "-xv" in USE, xv support is > blocked. Did you have any problems with xv that caused you to block it? > If not, change "-xv" to "xv" in USE in /etc/make.con

Re: [gentoo-user] Choppy video playback

2008-01-28 Thread Paul Sobey
On Monday 28 January 2008 00:39:51 Mike Mazur wrote: > In my case, vo=gl2, vo=gl and vo=x11 all behave the same, with regular > pauses. xv is not listed when I type `mplayer -vo help`. > > So doesn't this indicate that it's perhaps not mplayer itself causing > trouble, but rather something system-w

Re: [gentoo-user] Choppy video playback

2008-01-27 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 09:18:26PM +0900, Mike Mazur wrote > The output of `grep flags /proc/cpuinfo` is: > > flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge > mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx > lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts pni

Re: [gentoo-user] Choppy video playback

2008-01-27 Thread Mike Mazur
Hi, On Jan 28, 2008 7:55 AM, ionut cucu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 07:28:35 +0900 > "Mike Mazur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > On Jan 27, 2008 9:55 PM, ionut cucu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > True as that is, is think it's kind a of the point. I have been

Re: [gentoo-user] Choppy video playback

2008-01-27 Thread ionut cucu
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 07:28:35 +0900 "Mike Mazur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Jan 27, 2008 9:55 PM, ionut cucu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > True as that is, is think it's kind a of the point. I have been > > using mplayer to see movies since k7-2(I think it as a k7-2 don't > > remembe

Re: [gentoo-user] Choppy video playback

2008-01-27 Thread Mike Mazur
Hi, On Jan 27, 2008 9:55 PM, ionut cucu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > True as that is, is think it's kind a of the point. I have been using > mplayer to see movies since k7-2(I think it as a k7-2 don't remember > for sure). I've seldom got the error about CPU being to slow and always > it was anoth

Re: [gentoo-user] Choppy video playback

2008-01-27 Thread ionut cucu
On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 01:55:59 -0500 "Walter Dnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 07:39:47PM +0900, Mike Mazur wrote > > > CFLAGS="-march=prescott -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" > > The -march option may or may not invoke mmx, sse, sse2, etc in the > CFLAGS line but it def

Re: [gentoo-user] Choppy video playback

2008-01-27 Thread Mike Mazur
Hi Walter, On Jan 27, 2008 3:55 PM, Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 07:39:47PM +0900, Mike Mazur wrote > > > CFLAGS="-march=prescott -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" > > The -march option may or may not invoke mmx, sse, sse2, etc in the > CFLAGS line but it defini

Re: [gentoo-user] Choppy video playback

2008-01-26 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 07:39:47PM +0900, Mike Mazur wrote > CFLAGS="-march=prescott -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" The -march option may or may not invoke mmx, sse, sse2, etc in the CFLAGS line but it definitely does *NOT* invoke them in the USE variable. > USE="gtk gtk2 gnome -apm -eds -emb

Re: [gentoo-user] Choppy video playback

2008-01-26 Thread Mike Mazur
Hi Tomas, On Jan 25, 2008 8:55 PM, Tomas Papan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > can you send us your /etc/make.conf ? Here it is (with comments stripped out): CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=prescott -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" USE="gtk gtk2 gnome -apm -eds -emboss

Re: [gentoo-user] Choppy video playback

2008-01-25 Thread Tomas Papan
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 >

[gentoo-user] Choppy video playback

2008-01-25 Thread Mike Mazur
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