On 05/03/2010 07:17 PM, Paul Harper wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have an external hard drive on an XP computer which has a shared > folder that is automounted when I boot my media centre PC on Ubuntu. > This contains all of my media files which are referenced through Freevo, > its working fine playing .avi movies using Xine, with fluid playback but > playing mp3 files is another story. Using Mplayer or Xine I can't get > through 2-3 minutes of music without a pause of a second or two in the > playback. Most of my mp3 files are 256-320 kbs but I have tried this > with 160 kbs files and still get the same results. I have tried putting > the MPLAYER_AUDIO_CACHE_KB up to 5000 from within Freevo but still can't > get reliable playback, yet outside of Freevo without any manipulation of > Mplayer settings there is no problem playing these same files. I can > even stream audio over the LAN at 192kbs using Shoutcast from the > Windows PC and play this on Freevo without skipping. Something similar > happened with CD playback - from within Freevo there were regular pauses > and I had to change the Mplayer CD cache settings to 4096 - this seems > to work but makes for huge pauses in random play or when skipping to > another track as the cache is filled. Is there any reason for this > discrepancy in performance and any way I can circumvent these problems > from within Freevo? > > Thanks.
Paul, This is certainly odd. Freevo simply launches mplayer as an external application with a set of run switches. I'm guessing one of the switches which freevo is using is causing a problem. I suggest you start one of your mp3s playing via freevo, then find the process which is running mplayer using ps -ax. We'll call this process 1234. Next, cat /proc/1234/cmdline in order to get the exact command line which freevo is using. Next, run mplayer, outside of freevo, with this command line with -v and maybe you'll be able to decipher why mplayer is struggling with freevo. I hope this helps. Jim > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freevo-users mailing list > Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
