I don't know if anyone else ran into it, but this is funny. Lately I've been using SMPlayer for playing video, and I've been having issues with video skipping if the table that my laptop is sitting on is bumped -- it makes the video randomly skip. I've been occasionally trying to figure out the problem and wondering if it was rogue keyboard or mouse wheel events -- but reassigning keys and turning off mouse input didn't help.
I finally got a hint about it the other day on my desktop; while playing some video with SMPlayer I picked up a USB joystick that was plugged into it, and the video jumped. Yes that's right -- SMPlayer accepts joystick input, because MPlayer does that by default. >From here I knew what it was. I've also been loading the tp-smapi module for my laptop, which allows access to several hardware-specific devices for Thinkpads such as setting the battery charge thresholds. tp-smapi also comes with an 'hdaps' module to get access to the accelerometers to shut down the hard disk in case the laptop gets droped; however this shows up as a JOYSTICK device. Oops! Adding the "-nojoystick" to the "Options for MPlayer" command line in the "Advanced" section did the trick. So it wasn't a hardware problem -- it was a feature! -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [email protected] _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Sept 2 - Linux and HDTV Oct 7 - TBD Nov 4 - Google Wave
