[MPlayer-users] Hang-ups during playback...

[Attila Kinali]

On 22 Oct 2002 09:13:33 -0500
Michael McEnroe <sternn at uhacc.org> wrote:

> I just upgraded my roommate's machine to an Athlon 650 from a P2-333,
> and all seemed to be working well.  But there is now a strange issue
> with mplayer.  Whenever there's a lot of corrections going on, or
> whenever you seek within a movie, the system stops responding for a
> seemingly random amount of time.  The clock on the taskbar stops, the
> LCDProc monitor's heartbeat indicator freezes, and there's a
> high-pitched whine coming from the speakers.  After a 3-15 seconds,
> playback resumes.  It only happens when there's sound playing.  I can't
> figure out what's causing this.  Neither XMMS nor Xine doesn't have this
> issue, though.

Could be that mplayer is causing to much i/o which blocks the cpu.
Check your dma settings.

			Attila Kinali


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