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
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