Hi, I have a problem with my video stream. It seems to slip or pause and I miss moments of action on video files. I have to rewind back to view it again. It only happens for a moment but if it a quick action scene, I can miss what actually happened which becomes annoying.
Is there anyway i can correct the stream. It happens with any video player and any type of file. It even occurs in a live stream on a web browser.
Is anyone familiar with this problem. i would really appreciate any help to stop this.
I would suggest you provide details about your graphics chipset and driver, not just the symptoms. (They’re often related). What version of openSUSE are you using?
Hi deano, You have helped me out immensely on here before. Glad to see you are still out there.
Using
openSUSE 11.2 (i586)
KDE: 4.3.5 (KDE 4.3.5) “release 0”
dave@dhcppc2:~> /sbin/lspci -nnk
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express DRAM Controller [8086:29c0] (rev 10)
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device [1458:5000]
Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:29c2] (rev 10)
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device [1458:d000]
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller [8086:27d8] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device [1458:a002]
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 [8086:27d0] (rev 01)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 [8086:27d2] (rev 01)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:27c8] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device [1458:5004]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:27c9] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device [1458:5004]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:27ca] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device [1458:5004]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.3 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:27cb] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device [1458:5004]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:27cc] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device [1458:5006]
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge [8086:244e] (rev e1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC Interface Bridge [8086:27b8] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device [1458:5001]
00:1f.2 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR/GH (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller [8086:27c0] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device [1458:b002]
Kernel driver in use: ata_piix
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller [8086:27da] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology GA-8I945PG-RH Mainboard [1458:5001]
Kernel driver in use: i801_smbus
02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Attansic Technology Corp. Device [1969:1063] (rev c0)
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device [1458:e000]
Kernel driver in use: atl1c
03:00.0 USB Controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller [1106:3038] (rev 61)
Subsystem: Melco Inc Device [1154:0216]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
03:00.1 USB Controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller [1106:3038] (rev 61)
Subsystem: Melco Inc Device [1154:0216]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
03:00.2 USB Controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 [1106:3104] (rev 63)
Subsystem: Melco Inc Device [1154:0217]
You could also check processor use. Open a terminal and run
top
then play the video. Any process hitting 100%?
Check the players and video & audio drivers they use - for example: SMplayer/Mplayer with xv video & alsa output drivers; kaffeine (with packman’s libxine, not opensuse’s).
If you disable the audio card (in Yast or system settings, not sure which), does the problem persist?
Ran it through terminal and found no process hitting 100%- well below actually.
sorry, I am not sure how to check which drivers the players are using. having a look around now.
I could not find how to disable the audio card in Yast. I once disabled pulse audio to fix a sound problem.
Pretty lost actually.
So I am not sure if this is a “Video” problem or a Multimedia problem or a sound card problem. Might I suggest a couple of scripts that might be helpful including the ability to enable your Pluseaudio if you are so inclined. The first script is called START and is intended to help with audio hardware. I include its mention due to yours about Pulse.
Message #40 has info on getting the latest version of MMCHECK. These are text based script files you can copy from online and create your self. There is no way to know if they will help in your case or not. Sometimes they show you have a problem that you do not know how to fix, but that is where we come in if something has been identified.
These forums are full of issues concerning intel graphics affecting specific hardware chipsets and/or driver versions. Do you have desktop effects enabled? If so, disable, and see if that helps. I’m going to point you at a couple of threads to start with:
deano, looks like you nailed it again. Desk top settings had a photo slide show set at 10 second intervals. extended that to 5 min, problem solved. Thank you so much.
Thanks to everyone who contributed to trying to solve this problem.
jdmcdaniel3, thank you for your contribution, i am going to read over those links and try to fine tune my settings. I have lots to learn as you may have already realized.
Thank you again everyone!
Note that the drivers I refer to are not the kernel-level drivers (like ATI, INTEL, NVIDIA for video and HD-AUDIO, ALCxxx for audio), but the drivers that mplayer will use to output video and audio to X/KDE.
You could try selecting null as the audio driver. If your video plays well then it’s probable the problem is caused by audio.
deano, looks like you nailed it again. Desk top settings had a photo slide show set at 10 second intervals. extended that to 5 min, problem solved. Thank you so much.
Thanks to everyone who contributed to trying to solve this problem.
