Scott Serr wrote:
> Duncan Webb wrote:
>
>> On 10/10/2008 10:04, Alberto Hernando said the following:
>>
>>
>>> El Viernes, 10 de Octubre de 2008 09:25, Scott Serr escribió:
>>>
>>>
>>>> twm -> freevo -> mplayer
>>>> only xv = no video / black
>>>> only sdl = no video / black
>>>> only x11 = no video / black
>>>>
>>>> Now, I decided to do the same test with freevo -fs from console
>>>> only xv = no video / black
>>>> only sdl = no video / black
>>>> only x11 = no video / black
>>>>
>>>> BUT... "xv,x11" works in the freevo -fs case but with high CPU.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Interesting.
>>> Could you add vesa to your tests? It only uses cpu power, so if you get
>>> your
>>> 50% with vesa, it could mean that freevo uses it as a fallback method for
>>> some reason. Another thing you could try is to upgrade to the lastest
>>> freevo.
>>> I don't know if something regarding this has changed, but...
>>> Anyway, it looks like a serious bug. Consider reporting it when you have a
>>> clear idea of what's going on.
>>>
>>>
>> Indeed this is interesting.
>>
>> Clearly the xv driver is not working when you start freevo -fs, it is
>> typical of the x11 driver to use a high level CPU and jerky play back.
>>
>> The main difference is that with the -fs option X starts without a
>> window manager. I think that you need to check your xorg.conf. It is
>> possible that your normal window manager loads drivers/modules when it
>> starts.
>>
>> Duncan
>>
>>
> I've done a bit of upgrading, with no luck. A masked mplayer and a
> newly released mesa.
>
> This card seems to be working very well except for freevo. Xorg.0.log
> says XVideo is loaded, DRI is loaded, and GLX. glxgears seems very smooth.
>
> But STILL when Freevo launches MPlayer, I get ~50% CPU usage (2.4 P4).
> When I launch the EXACT same command otherwise it uses about ~5%.
>
> I've put "mplayer blah blah blah" in my ~freevo/.xinitrc and launched
> MPlayer bare on the X server. 5% CPU.
>
> Then I put "/usr/bin/freevo" in my ~freevo/.xinitrc and ran xinit, then
> selected a movie. 50% CPU.
>
> Very strange. The only thing I can think of is it is something wrong
> with Freevo... the specific version might have a bug... or my config.
> I'm going to mod the freevo.ebuild for the new version.
>
> Here is my config file... let me know if something looks bad.
>
> # grep -v ^# local_conf.py | grep -v ^$
> CONFIG_VERSION = 5.22
> MPLAYER_AO_DEV = 'alsa'
> MPLAYER_VO_DEV_OPTS = ' -nofontconfig '
> EVENT_DEVS = []
> CACHE_IMAGES = 1
> VIDEO_ITEMS = [
> ('localvideo', '/mnt'),
> ('media', '/net/media'),
> ]
> LIRCRC = '/etc/freevo/lircrc'
> MPLAYER_DVD_PROTECTION = 0
> MPLAYER_DEBUG = 1
> DEBUG = 1
> CHILDAPP_DEBUG = 1
> LOGGING = logging.DEBUG
> RECORDSERVER_LOGGING = logging.DEBUG
>
>
I'm pretty sure it was this line:
MPLAYER_VO_DEV_OPTS = ' -nofontconfig '
Even though it was put on the command line running, it didn't seem to
recognized when Freevo was running it. It seems the new version of
MPlayer really likes subtext and complains on my system about building
fonts. It does this and causes huge amounts of stderr/stdout...
Causing the CPU to be quite busy.
I HACKED the -nofontconfig switch into /usr/share/freevo/freevo.conf
because there didn't seem to be a general purpose MPLAYER variable that
I could use in the /etc/freevo/local_config.py. This seems to have
fixed it. Low CPU now.
I upgraded to the newest Freevo also... 1.8.2 and kaa-base-4.0. (and
new MPlayer)
During previous testing, I was trying to be careful, I don't know how I
got odd results (black screen) from senarios that should not have
yielded it.
Thanks everyone... I hope this helps someone.
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