On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Alex Schuster <wo...@wonkology.org> 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=10000, in mplayer, for a > minute, several times. When I do this by opening the file in Dolphin, I > get about 15 interruptions, some for longer than a second. Started on the > command line, there are very few, I can play the video for minutes > without a gap. Hooray! > > In KDE, I usually play videos by opening them in Dolphin. I exchanged > 'mplayer %U' by 'xterm -T MPLAYER -e mplayer %U' in the settings, now > mplayer runs in a terminal, and all is fine. I created a window rule so > the terminal automatically minimizes. Cool! > > It only happens in mplayer and mplayer2. Other players work fine, but I > like mplayer best, and prefer to run it without any window decoration. > > 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 play, causing resource contention. I wonder if you can disable thumbnail generation by Dolphin or remove the association it has with video files and mplayer.
