Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo 1.8 CPU usage

2008-07-10 Thread Omry Yadan
okay, just tried again. the mysterious problem have disappeared and I can now run freevo in full screen mode. however, it didn't make any difference in video performance for full HD video files. Omry Yadan wrote: >> Are you run Freevo on top of a window manager? I have had t

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo 1.8 - why does it need to poll anyway?

2008-07-10 Thread Omry Yadan
> I don't think this takes much CPU as the reading of the output streams > is performed in separate threads and the volume of output is very low. > > Most of the python load is used is the kaa event handler and how it > calls freevo. By setting the POLL_TIME to a higher value significantly > re

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo 1.8 CPU usage

2008-07-10 Thread Omry Yadan
> Setting 'MPLAYER_NICE= 0' solved my issue. Thanks Duncan for > the hint. > I ran freevo as root, and checked htop. it runs mplayer with priority 0 and nice -20, and all the dshowserver (coreavc decoding processes) are inheriting those settings. in fact, video playback is much WORSE

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo 1.8 CPU usage

2008-07-10 Thread Omry Yadan
> Are you run Freevo on top of a window manager? I have had trouble with > freevo and video performance doing that in a lot easier to handled > videos than an HD. You get the best performance when you use freevo as > the window manager. Just something to try. > Well, in the past I used to. but

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo 1.8 CPU usage

2008-07-06 Thread Omry Yadan
> You can use DEBUG_CHILDAPP=1 in local_conf.py and this does two things, > first, you should see the command line that freevo executes in the > main-X.log and, secondly, it captures the output of mplayer, etc to a > separate log. > I have this enabled forever now. :) > When freevo runs a co

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo 1.8 CPU usage

2008-07-06 Thread Omry Yadan
>> have you ever looked at a movie at 1080p? >> watching it with my 1080p projector gives a fantastic image (on an 2.44m >> wide screen). >> > > No, to be honest, I haven't; I must some time. > > >> so. allow me to respectfully disagree :). >> > > > I do watch 720x576 movies on a 192

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo 1.8 - why does it need to poll anyway?

2008-07-05 Thread Omry Yadan
John Molohan wrote: > Omry Yadan wrote: > >> this hardly sounds cpu intensive. (and can also be activated on demand : >> most users does not need this functionality). >> >> anything else? >> >> > At a guess to poll for events? > Whi

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo 1.8 - why does it need to poll anyway?

2008-07-05 Thread Omry Yadan
this hardly sounds cpu intensive. (and can also be activated on demand : most users does not need this functionality). anything else? Andreas Dick wrote: > Am Samstag, 5. Juli 2008 11.14:49 schrieb Omry Yadan: > >> you mean that Freevo draws straight on the mplayer/

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo 1.8 - why does it need to poll anyway?

2008-07-05 Thread Omry Yadan
you mean that Freevo draws straight on the mplayer/xine surface? Andreas Dick wrote: > Am Samstag, 5. Juli 2008 00.51:06 schrieb Omry Yadan: > >> What exactly is freevo doing that requires constant polling? >> >> why does it need to do it while playing a video? >&

[Freevo-users] Freevo 1.8 - why does it need to poll anyway?

2008-07-04 Thread Omry Yadan
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Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo 1.8 CPU usage

2008-07-04 Thread Omry Yadan
l command > from the cli the video plays smooth. > > I can try a 1080p video tonight and report back. My guess is the > problem I see with 720p will now be more exaggerated. > > -steve > > > On 11:16 Fri 04 Jul, Omry Yadan wrote: > >> Alberto Hernando wrote:

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo 1.8 CPU usage

2008-07-04 Thread Omry Yadan
>> Nope, I was busy looking at the video output looking for freezes. >> I can tell you that generally while I play an 1080p h264, my system is >> at near 100% on both cores, >> and that I see freevo takes what appears to be 1-2% of one core every >> few seconds. >> > > 1920x1080 h264 is rea

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo 1.8 CPU usage

2008-07-04 Thread Omry Yadan
>> I just tried, and I didn't see any noticeable improvement. >> the symptoms in my case is that the movie (1920x1080 h264) starts to >> play smooth, but after a minute or two the coreavc codec starts to get >> choked and I begin to see many small freezes. >> >> My setup is Pentium D 3ghz w

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo 1.8 CPU usage

2008-07-04 Thread Omry Yadan
Alberto Hernando wrote: > El Viernes, 4 de Julio de 2008 09:27, Omry Yadan escribió: > >> Debian Lenny, kernel 2.6.24. >> I compiled mplayer with the default compilation options (from svn, about >> a month ago), after applying the coreavc patch. >> >> I

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo 1.8 CPU usage

2008-07-04 Thread Omry Yadan
Alberto Hernando wrote: > El Viernes, 4 de Julio de 2008 08:57, Omry Yadan escribió: > >> I tried but it didn't seem to make any difference in video freezes while >> playing a full HD movie with freevo. >> > > > Hi. > > Perhaps, rather than op

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo 1.8 CPU usage

2008-07-04 Thread Omry Yadan
Steven Blatchford wrote: > On 22:28 Sun 22 Jun, Omry Yadan wrote: > >> Hi all, >> I recently started to watch full HD H264 videos (1920x1080). >> It's really heavy on the CPU, and I had to get coreavc for linux, which >> is an adaptation of coreavc - a win

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo 1.8 CPU usage

2008-07-03 Thread Omry Yadan
Duncan Webb wrote: > Markus Wittenberg wrote: > >> Omry Yadan schrieb: >> >>> Hi all, >>> I recently started to watch full HD H264 videos (1920x1080). >>> It's really heavy on the CPU, and I had to get coreavc for linux, which >

[Freevo-users] Freevo 1.8 CPU usage

2008-06-22 Thread Omry Yadan
Hi all, I recently started to watch full HD H264 videos (1920x1080). It's really heavy on the CPU, and I had to get coreavc for linux, which is an adaptation of coreavc - a windows multi-core decoder for h264 to linux. my problem is that even with that codec, my system is right on the edge of pr

[Freevo-users] Freevo 1.8 crashes when I open a video file.

2008-06-06 Thread Omry Yadan
Hi all, freevo started to crash when I open a video file I see this in the std out: Freevo 1.8.1 r10613 ready /home/omry/freevo/lib/python2.4/site-packages/kaa/metadata/disc/dvd.py:48: RuntimeWarning: Python C API version mismatch for module _ifoparser: This Python has API version 1013, module

Re: [Freevo-users] Installing 1.8 from SVN

2008-04-10 Thread Omry Yadan
Works, thanks a lot! Evan Hisey wrote: >> in any case, I hacked setup.py to allow it, and got it to install - only >> to bump into this new obstacle: >> >> > you need to add the Freevo modules to the pyhon path. From the wiki: > > * Find the version of Python that is being used > > ve

Re: [Freevo-users] Installing 1.8 from SVN

2008-04-10 Thread Omry Yadan
>> Is there a way to install Freevo without the docs? >> >> > ./autogen.sh --no-docs? > > no. it's ./autogen.sh nodocs, but setup.py insists that you don't run autogen like that: Docs/howto not found. Please run ./autogen.sh in any case, I hacked setup.py to allow it, and got it to i

Re: [Freevo-users] Installing 1.8 from SVN

2008-04-10 Thread Omry Yadan
used. Is there a way to install Freevo without the docs? Dan Sully wrote: > * Omry Yadan shaped the electrons to say... > > >>Summary: >>+ base, display, epg, record, canvas, cherrypy >>- imlib2, mevas, metadata, evas, xine, beacon, popcorn, feedmana

Re: [Freevo-users] Installing 1.8 from SVN

2008-04-10 Thread Omry Yadan
I followed the installation instructions. cd kaa python setup.py install --prefix=~/freevo see the attacherd output file. I should mention that I am using python 2.4. Evan Hisey wrote: On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Omry Yadan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: kaa installation s

[Freevo-users] Installing 1.8 from SVN

2008-04-10 Thread Omry Yadan
Hi List, I am trying to install 1.8 from SVN on Debian lenny. I checked out kaa and freevo. kaa installation summary is: Summary: + base, display, epg, record, canvas, cherrypy - imlib2, mevas, metadata, evas, xine, beacon, popcorn, feedmanager and when I try to install freevo I

[Freevo-users] out of disk space -> crash on startup.

2005-12-11 Thread Omry Yadan
My drive went out of disk space. happens to the best of us. when I started freevo, it crashed, and it wouldn't start again even after I freed some space. the problem was that freevo created a pid file in /tmp, but could not write the pid into it. it than had a parsing error trying to parse

Re: [Freevo-users] Can't play DVD.

2005-09-05 Thread Omry Yadan
I suspect what 'fixed' it was searching for it in IMDB, which probably refreshed the cache for it. :) Fabio Papa wrote: Omry Yadan wrote: Correction: It began to work all the sudden. thanks :). Yes, I should have mentioned you have to rebuild

Re: [Freevo-users] Can't play DVD.

2005-09-03 Thread Omry Yadan
Correction: It began to work all the sudden. thanks :). Omry Yadan wrote: As suggested, I upgraded mmpython to 0.4.9. the dubious error message disappeared, but I still get the same behavior: the DVD won't play, instead freevo browses the dvd and shows me the directories. attach

Re: [Freevo-users] Can't play DVD.

2005-09-03 Thread Omry Yadan
1.5.3. Fabio Papa wrote: Omry Yadan wrote: Hi. I am having a problem to play a DVD with freevo. xine plays it well, but freevo just shows me the files list. attahed is output from freevo which seems related. Hi, you just encountered the now famous incompatibility between an old mmpython ve

[Freevo-users] Can't play DVD.

2005-09-02 Thread Omry Yadan
Hi. I am having a problem to play a DVD with freevo. xine plays it well, but freevo just shows me the files list. attahed is output from freevo which seems related. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/omry$ freevo Error: VIDEO_SHOW