Re: Mplayer eating all CPU
At Sun, 5 Oct 2003 07:55:11 -0700,
moseley@hank.org wrote:
>
> On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 05:18:12PM +1300, Paul William wrote:
> > you could use the nice command which alters priority of
> > programs your run. do a man nice to find out more.
>
> Oh, I see I posted this same question in September.
>
> Sorry, I wasn't clear. Mplayer is *hanging* eating all CPU. I
> click on the media in Mozilla, I see a bit of network traffic.
> The network traffic stops and then the mplayer uses 99% CPU and
> nothing happens -- it will just sit there forever.
>
> I just want to see if anyone else see the same thing to decide
> if it's my setup or mplayer.
>
> Also, I'm using the mplayer plugin for mozilla, so I'd like to
> figure out if that's related or if it's just mplayer. It seems
> to be <embed> movies that cause the problem.
Your CPU problem only happens to me when I play better than DVD
quality video files. But then I never use mplayer embedded.
Using some pretty trivial text manipulations I extract the video
file's name from the html and play that.
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