Jimtim Posted March 21, 2007 Report Share Posted March 21, 2007 I have a couple of small problems with Mplayer. Can anyone help? 1) When I have a list of things to play, it generally plays the first item and not the others. For example, I like the site NME.com, where you can listen to streamed albums. But if I want to do this, I have to use Windows as Mplayer will play the first song and then stop. 2) It's very slow! But maybe there's nothing that can be done about this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emmanuel_uk Posted March 21, 2007 Report Share Posted March 21, 2007 It's very slow What PC/config do you have? When is it slow? How slow? when doing what? music or video? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimtim Posted March 21, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 21, 2007 I have a 64 bit Celeron (equivalent Pentium 4) pc with 750Mo Ram running at 2.6 GHz. It generally takes over a minute for Mplayer to start playing audio files. It doesn't play video at all: it just stops. When I use it, I'm never doing anything more than writing a document in writer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted March 21, 2007 Report Share Posted March 21, 2007 Are you using 64-bit OS? If you do, then a lot of mplayer codecs won't work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted March 22, 2007 Report Share Posted March 22, 2007 I noticed in one of your other posts that you're running Spring. Cooker might be a little shaky on the codec front. I would really go back to a stable Mandriva release if you want things to just work, because that will not be the experience in Cooker. What graphic card do you have and which driver are you using for it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimtim Posted March 22, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2007 I don't know if I'm using a 64 bit OS. Sorry; I'm pretty useless! How can I find this out? My video card is NV17 GeForce4 MMX 440-SE. I've just re-installed Mandriva 2007.0, following the advice of Greg2 and Silversurfer :D However, the problems I had problems before I accidentally downloaded cooker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emmanuel_uk Posted March 22, 2007 Report Share Posted March 22, 2007 as root (type su then enter) then type uname -a paste the result in post Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimtim Posted March 22, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2007 OK. Here it is: Linux main.lan 2.6.17-5mdv #1 SMP Wed Sep 13 14:32:31 EDT 2006 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.60GHz GNU/Linux Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted March 22, 2007 Report Share Posted March 22, 2007 I don't know for the no-play issue, but for big-lag issue, I had this problem once because "jack" sound server was installed and did not work, and MPlayer tried to use it and could not success. Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emmanuel_uk Posted March 22, 2007 Report Share Posted March 22, 2007 look with command top if anything is strange I assumed uname would have told us if it was a 64bits I do not have a 64 so I am not 100% sure you are running the 32 bits OS try as root cat /etc/issue wherever the issue file is! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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