System hiccups

dentharg · Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 9:02 am Post subject: System hiccups

Hi!
From some time (don't know when) my system got a hiccup during video playback (and also other animation).
When playing a movie with the kaffeine or mplayer my video freezes every few seconds to continue after half a second.
This also happens to visualization of amarok. I don't know where to look...

I use kernel 2.6.11.6 (vanilla), xorg + ati drivers, kde 3.4 rc1.
I'll bring 'emerge info' tomorrow if needed.

Where can I look, what can I diagnose to solve the problem?

TIA,
Dentharg

yaneurabeya · Veteran Joined: 13 May 2004 Posts: 1754 Location: Seattle

Have you tried a different output driver in mplayer?

What is your emerge info, specs and the DE/WM that you use

?

dentharg · Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 9:53 am Post subject:

As for mplayer, yes - still the same.
I also wonder why amarok visualizations have hiccups. At first I thought that it was something with kernel (I used a -ck line kernel), so switched to vanilla kernel. Same shit.

placeholder · Advocate Joined: 07 Feb 2004 Posts: 2500

What are your scores in GLX gears? Perhaps the ATi driver is the cause.

dentharg · Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 12:17 pm Post subject:

around 1850 fps (radeon 9600)

Sabishii-ookami · n00b Joined: 15 Mar 2005 Posts: 36

I'm having the exact same problem. When I play video using either kaffeine or mplayer with any video out, the playback hangs (for half a second) every let say 3-4 seconds. Testing it further the opengl screen saver do the same thing, hangs (for half a second) every let say 3-4 seconds. The ATI drivers are correctly configured and I can play some opengl games (I tried egoboo and it doesn't have problems, runs at 250fps).