Scott Serr wrote:
> 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.
MPLAYER_ARGS_DEF is the place for common arguments
I use these:
MPLAYER_ARGS_DEF = \
(('-autosync 100 -osd-duration 2000 -menu -nolirc -autoq 100 '
+ '-screenw %s -screenh %s -fs -subpos 92 -vf screenshot') %
(CONF.width, CONF.height))
> 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.
Duncan
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