Kaffeine playback jerky

[Billie Walsh]

On 09/03/2008 Knapp wrote:
>  I think we should fix your computers problem and all the vim/kate
>  stuff can go play on that thread.
>  Your computer is not working for some reason and that reason could be
>  doing a bunch of other bad things like messing up DVD burns or slowing
>  down reads or perhaps messing up games or other graphics intensive
>  work depending on the REAL cause of the problem.
>
>  So what was the frame rate of the gears thing now that we know it
>  worked? Are there any other problems on your system? how does movie
>  play back work with other sources. Like say copy an iso to your hard
>  drive and mount that and try and play it. Does it work or not, thus is
>  it the DVD or something else?

I tried to run the glxgears thing a few minutes ago and it wouldn't 
start. It said that I needed to install mesa-utils. Computers, gotta 
love em. Anyway, got that sorted out and ran it long enough for th 
eframe rate to sort of hits it's peak. Below is the result

4141 frames in 5.0 seconds = 828.106 FPS
4710 frames in 5.0 seconds = 941.914 FPS
4730 frames in 5.0 seconds = 945.933 FPS
4703 frames in 5.0 seconds = 940.582 FPS
4651 frames in 5.0 seconds = 930.079 FPS
4677 frames in 5.0 seconds = 935.373 FPS
4720 frames in 5.0 seconds = 943.928 FPS
4853 frames in 5.0 seconds = 970.476 FPS
4370 frames in 5.0 seconds = 873.987 FPS
3996 frames in 5.0 seconds = 799.120 FPS
4005 frames in 5.0 seconds = 800.939 FPS
4721 frames in 5.0 seconds = 944.116 FPS
4761 frames in 5.0 seconds = 952.176 FPS
4735 frames in 5.0 seconds = 946.598 FPS
4715 frames in 5.0 seconds = 942.939 FPS
4752 frames in 5.0 seconds = 950.319 FPS
4729 frames in 5.0 seconds = 945.773 FPS
4691 frames in 5.0 seconds = 938.195 FPS
4688 frames in 5.0 seconds = 937.599 FPS
4680 frames in 5.0 seconds = 935.944 FPS
4699 frames in 5.0 seconds = 939.280 FPS
4639 frames in 5.0 seconds = 927.708 FPS

I'm not sure what you mean by mounting  an ISO and playing it.

What it kind of reminds me of is like when your playing a video off the 
web and it has to stop till the download catches up and then play some 
more. I can't understand why it would, but it's kind of like it's trying 
to copy the video to the hard drive and play it from there rather than 
playing off the DVD.

I've been doing a little more experimenting. First I tried my CD/DVD 
combo drive. Same effects. Then I copied a movie DVD to my hard drive [ 
one I recorded myself ]. I probably didn't play it correctly 
but............ I right clicked on some of the different files until one 
said "Play With Kafeine". The video played pretty well with just an 
occasional glitch. [ then I realized that I still had another video 
playing in Firefox on another desktop ] One thing I noticed was that 
when playing the movie from the hard drive the drive light was on less 
than when playing from the DVD.

It appears the problem is NOT Kafeine itself. I think the issue has to 
be related to why the hard drive light runs nearly continuous when 
playing a movie. Whatever is driving the hard drive is eating processor 
time.


>
>  And yes LOTS of people use Blender3d, they just make a cute little
>  movie using just that. A lot of game art is done with it too. It is
>  great for video editing too. If you replay to this line lets please
>  change the subject like so we can get this guy helped. I know I
>  started this messing about (sort of anyway).


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