gmplayer doesn't play smoothly on 11.3

**heinkonijn** · 05-Sep-2010, 21:06

I just upgraded (full reinstall inc. format) from 11.1 (32bit) to 11.3 (64bit).
Everything is working correctly except gmplayer (installed from packman).

If I play movies using gmplayer they do not play smoothly, but the strange thing is if I play the same file with mplayer from a terminal it does play smoothly.

If I play the file from a terminal with gmplayer no errors are reported...

Anyone here know what this might be?

Thanks,
Hein

**caf4926** · 05-Sep-2010, 21:22

Did you follow this
Multi-media and Restricted Format Installation Guide

**JohnVV** · 06-Sep-2010, 02:50

this sounds a bit like you have compiz running " desktop effects"
if so turn them off first
if that dose fix it then you most likely have a built in 3d chip and not a full 3d card , or this is a laptop

**heinkonijn** · 12-Sep-2010, 15:24

Originally Posted by caf4926

Did you follow this
Multi-media and Restricted Format Installation Guide

No, I just used webpin to search for mplayer and install it from there.

**heinkonijn** · 12-Sep-2010, 15:25

Originally Posted by JohnVV

this sounds a bit like you have compiz running " desktop effects"
if so turn them off first
if that dose fix it then you most likely have a built in 3d chip and not a full 3d card , or this is a laptop

OK, tried it and it plays smoothly then. But why does mplayer play smoothly and gmplayer not? Gmplayer is just a wrapper fom mplayer, right?
It is a laptop, it has a NVIDIA chipset, but I use the nouveu driver.

**JohnVV** · 12-Sep-2010, 23:03

Gmplayer is just a wrapper fom mplayer, right?

yes and no

are you running the default KDE desktop if so then gmplayer is putting a LOT of work running kde AND gnome for the GnomeMplayer

if running the Gnome desktop them mostly just a wrapper

on almost all laptops , except for the very high end ones, compiz AND a video put to much strain on the built in GPU seeing as it is also working with the CPU also
the built in chip uses a lot of cpu IO calls and uses the system ram as the GPU ram
for the web a built in chip works but you can not do too many things at the same time

it is NOT a desktop/ workstation after all

also that how to link posted above IS A MUST
the codecs in the oss and non-oss ARE NOT compatible with the pacman video codecs

they mostly work but not 100% correct
use yast to reinstall ALL video related rpm's from pacman

there is an option to "change vender" in the gui .