Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs [SOLVED, sort of]

2012-05-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Paul Hartman writes: > On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Alex Schuster > wrote: > > Finally, I found something. It's Dolphin! [...] > > Now, would this be an MPlayer problem, or one of Dolphin? > > I wonder if Dolphin is generating thumbnails/preview indexes at the > same time you're trying to pl

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs [SOLVED, sort of]

2012-05-14 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: > Finally, I found something. It's Dolphin! > > I've done some longer testing, always playing the same video parallel > with a dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/10G bs=1M count=1, in mplayer, for a > minute, several times. When I do this by opening t

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs [SOLVED, sort of]

2012-05-13 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 7:27 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sun, 13 May 2012 18:03:59 -0400 > Michael Mol wrote: > >> On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Alan McKinnon >> wrote: >> > On Sun, 13 May 2012 17:01:07 -0400 >> > Michael Mol wrote: >> > >> >> On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Alan McKinnon

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs [SOLVED, sort of]

2012-05-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun, 13 May 2012 18:03:59 -0400 Michael Mol wrote: > On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Alan McKinnon > wrote: > > On Sun, 13 May 2012 17:01:07 -0400 > > Michael Mol wrote: > > > >> On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Alan McKinnon > >> wrote: > >> > On Sun, 13 May 2012 14:12:04 -0400 > >> > Mic

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs [SOLVED, sort of]

2012-05-13 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sun, 13 May 2012 17:01:07 -0400 > Michael Mol wrote: > >> On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Alan McKinnon >> wrote: >> > On Sun, 13 May 2012 14:12:04 -0400 >> > Michael Mol wrote: >> > >> >> On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 4:56 AM, Alan McKinnon

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs [SOLVED, sort of]

2012-05-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun, 13 May 2012 17:01:07 -0400 Michael Mol wrote: > On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Alan McKinnon > wrote: > > On Sun, 13 May 2012 14:12:04 -0400 > > Michael Mol wrote: > > > >> On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 4:56 AM, Alan McKinnon > >> wrote: > >> > [1] .avi files are notorious for this shit. I

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs [SOLVED, sort of]

2012-05-13 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sun, 13 May 2012 14:12:04 -0400 > Michael Mol wrote: > >> On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 4:56 AM, Alan McKinnon >> wrote: >> > [1] .avi files are notorious for this shit. It's what happens when >> > you are Microsoft and you release any old cra

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs [SOLVED, sort of]

2012-05-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun, 13 May 2012 14:12:04 -0400 Michael Mol wrote: > On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 4:56 AM, Alan McKinnon > wrote: > > [1] .avi files are notorious for this shit. It's what happens when > > you are Microsoft and you release any old crappy format without > > consulting the other experts out there (w

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs [SOLVED, sort of]

2012-05-13 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 4:56 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > [1] .avi files are notorious for this shit. It's what happens when you > are Microsoft and you release any old crappy format without consulting > the other experts out there (who will always outnumber you) Which better container formats were

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs [SOLVED, sort of]

2012-05-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sat, 12 May 2012 11:41:33 -0400 Norman Invasion wrote: > On 12 May 2012 11:05, Alex Schuster wrote: > > Norman Invasion writes: > > > >> On 11 May 2012 21:40, Alex Schuster wrote: > >> > Finally, I found something. It's Dolphin! > > [...] > >> Apologies: I haven't followed this thread from t

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs [SOLVED, sort of]

2012-05-12 Thread Norman Invasion
On 12 May 2012 11:05, Alex Schuster wrote: > Norman Invasion writes: > >> On 11 May 2012 21:40, Alex Schuster 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 adv

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs [SOLVED, sort of]

2012-05-12 Thread Alex Schuster
Norman Invasion writes: > On 11 May 2012 21:40, Alex Schuster 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 har

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs [SOLVED, sort of]

2012-05-12 Thread Norman Invasion
On 11 May 2012 21:40, Alex Schuster wrote: > Finally, I found something. It's Dolphin! > > I've done some longer testing, always playing the same video parallel > with a dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/10G bs=1M count=1, in mplayer, for a > minute, several times. When I do this by opening the file in

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs [SOLVED, sort of]

2012-05-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Finally, I found something. It's Dolphin! I've done some longer testing, always playing the same video parallel with a dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/10G bs=1M count=1, in mplayer, for a minute, several times. When I do this by opening the file in Dolphin, I get about 15 interruptions, some for longe