Kaffeine playback jerky

[david]

On Wednesday 03 September 2008 10:00:48 pm Billie Walsh wrote:
> 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.

Lets try this:

go to kmenu->system->hardware drivers manager and disable the ATI driver and 
reboot. then see if you still get choppy video.
>
> >  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).
>
> --
> Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

-- 
David M.