mplayer variants freeze

[imagiz]

both umplayer and smplayer freeze more and more often. I'll watch video and then listen to music or surf the web and then come back to watch more vid.

Both mplayer based players will open, size themselves and stop. sometimes they play a frame or two of the vid and then stop. they do not show time data for the video. VLC will play the video but is not a permanent solution as it cannot resume from last played position.

it's fine once the thing is restarted but i am having to do that more and more often which makes me think maybe the system is becoming unstable.

Anyone else had this, anyone know why it is happening....and what can be done to stop it happening?

thanks.

[GnuKian]

you may want to try smplayer2: http://www.webupd8.org/2012/01/insta...layer2-in.html

[SeijiSensei]

Play a video that freezes from the command line with mplayer ("mplayer /path/to/videofile") and post the results here inside [code][/code] tags. If you start to see a neverending repetition of errors, just give us the first few.

Do you have this problem with all videos or just certain ones? H.264-encoded videos are pretty much the norm these days, but they impose substantial demands on the processor to decode them in real time. Newer encodings with "10-bit" color have additional issues. If you have anything older files encoded with XviD in the AVI container (usually filename.avi), do you see the same problems with those?

What video card do you have? Use the command "lspci" if you don't know. Also include the results of "cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'model name'".

Mplayer2 might help, but lets see what you have in the way of hardware first.

[imagiz]

thanks for that. just installed mplayer2. let's see how it goes.

[imagiz]

i'll try mplayer2 before going deeper. it's great that you've shared your knowledge and hope i may draw on it again should mplayer2 not solve my problem. many thanks.

[imagiz]

Play a video that freezes from the command line with mplayer ("mplayer /path/to/videofile") and post the results here inside [code][/code] tags. If you start to see a neverending repetition of errors, just give us the first few.

Do you have this problem with all videos or just certain ones? H.264-encoded videos are pretty much the norm these days, but they impose substantial demands on the processor to decode them in real time. Newer encodings with "10-bit" color have additional issues. If you have anything older files encoded with XviD in the AVI container (usually filename.avi), do you see the same problems with those?

What video card do you have? Use the command "lspci" if you don't know. Also include the results of "cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'model name'".

Mplayer2 might help, but lets see what you have in the way of hardware first.

i'll try mplayer2 before going deeper. it's great that you've shared your knowledge and hope i may draw on it again should mplayer2 not solve my problem. many thanks.

[imagiz]

you may want to try smplayer2: http://www.webupd8.org/2012/01/insta...layer2-in.html

thanks for that. just installed mplayer2. let's see how it goes.

[furything]

You can resume video in VLC
http://askubuntu.com/questions/16423...opped-with-vlc
But if something is not set up correctly working it may be worth taking up SeijiSensei offer to assist

[andrew.46]

Perhaps consider building your own copy of MPlayer:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Compiling%20MPlayer

[imagiz]

Perhaps consider building your own copy of MPlayer:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Compiling%20MPlayer

wow!!