hello,

can you send us your /etc/make.conf ?

br
tomas

Mike Mazur wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having choppy video playback in mplayer, vlc and also in Firefox
> on YouTube and the like. I notice a video freeze every 1-2 seconds or
> so, then the video snaps back to where it should be. The audio sounds
> fine. Mplayer often spits out a warning message[1].
>
> I also noticed that typing into forms (like an email in Gmail) in
> Firefox, after Firefox has been running a few hours also suffers from
> this freeze every 1-2 seconds.
>
> A typical workload is Gnome, Firefox, Claws-Mail, Pidgin, Tomboy,
> xmms2 and a bunch of terminals with SSH sessions and irssi.
>
> I have an Intel Core 2 Duo 2GHz with 2 GB of RAM, so this shouldn't be
> happening. I'm running kernel 2.6.23-gentoo-r3. I don't remember when
> exactly this started, I don't really watch video too often.
>
> Could it be the scheduler with which my kernel is compiled? Currently
> it's set to "Preemptible Kernel (Low-Latency Desktop)".
>
> Any ideas? What to start tweaking with?
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Mike
>
>
> [1] Mplayer warning message:
>            ************************************************
>            **** Your system is too SLOW to play this!  ****
>            ************************************************
>
> Possible reasons, problems, workarounds:
> - Most common: broken/buggy _audio_ driver
>   - Try -ao sdl or use the OSS emulation of ALSA.
>   - Experiment with different values for -autosync, 30 is a good start.
> - Slow video output
>   - Try a different -vo driver (-vo help for a list) or try -framedrop!
> - Slow CPU
>   - Don't try to play a big DVD/DivX on a slow CPU! Try some of the lavdopts,
>     e.g. -vfm ffmpeg -lavdopts lowres=1:fast:skiploopfilter=all.
> - Broken file
>   - Try various combinations of -nobps -ni -forceidx -mc 0.
> - Slow media (NFS/SMB mounts, DVD, VCD etc)
>   - Try -cache 8192.
> - Are you using -cache to play a non-interleaved AVI file?
>   - Try -nocache.
> Read DOCS/HTML/en/video.html for tuning/speedup tips.
> If none of this helps you, read DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html.
>   

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