SMPlayer Lagging

2008-10-11 06:06:17 pm

ow

I just reformatted and I was watching Cannibals new Hitman run. Throughout the movie the video and audio (commentary) skip and lag.

Is this just me?

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nate

2008-10-11 06:13:42 pm

does your computer suck?

have you tried alternate players such as windoze media player after installing the cccp?

Enhasa

2008-10-12 09:41:36 pm

everybody wanna tell you the meaning of music

There are a ton of mplayer switches that can tweak this sort of thing (if this really is a synch issue instead of a processor issue), but I'm not going to bother you with them unless I get more information like: which version (LQ/NQ/HQ) you downloaded, if you have problems with other videos, if you have problems in other players, etc.

Granted, my computer is a P3 and I've never had to tweak anything for any vid, so I think if this is a problem for you and you respond, we can get it working fine.

Well I guess I'm going to assume that your computer is too slow and you're watching the HQ version. I guess first thing to try in any case would be switching the video filter in the options to "directx" or "gl:yuv=2:force-pbo:ati-hack". If that's not enough, performance/cache and put some number in local cache like 4096 KB.

edman3d

2009-02-28 08:58:43 pm

ow

I posted this ages ago, Google searched the problem again, and found my own thread. Never realized you guys answered. Having the problem again with the new 100% LoD run. I love SMPlayer so much, but the audio commentaries often give me trouble. My computer is definitely good enough to play a damn video with a secondary audio track. 3 Ghz 2gb dual 1950x radeons (can't think of anything else that would affect it).

I'm downloading the codec pack nate linked, I'll update the thread when I know if it worked or not.

edman3d

2009-03-01 08:26:26 am

ow

SMPlayer continued with the issue but VLC Player handled the commentary fine.

Enhasa

2009-03-01 11:07:44 pm

everybody wanna tell you the meaning of music

Both players use ffmpeg so if something works in one, it should generally work in both. That being said, this means that personal preferences aside (like interface), if one works and the other doesn't, it's not a big deal and you should just use whatever works.

Now if you want to solve this, first you say this only affects runs with commentary? Does it have problems only when playing the second track, or does it lag even when playing the first track (i.e. ignoring the second track). First off, you have the latest version? (sorry, I know it's kinda old, I'm going to compile a new version during spring break in a couple weeks) Since your comp is powerful, it's probably a synch issue. With current settings, I've never had an issue with any video I've ever found, but I changed them significantly from defaults, so it's possible some of these changes are not good ideas for some people. If that's true I apologize.

Try one or more of the following:

- Change the video output driver in general. Try directx, gl2 (should be default for this build since it has greatest compatibility), and gl. Newest mplayer has direct3d as well I think, but that probably won't matter in this case.
- Most important thing I think: make sure in Performance, fast audio track switching is no.
- Try checking the audio/video auto synch (factor 100), but in my experience this doesn't do what I want (I have a nvidia geforce2mx though, so it's highly possible stuff I say doesn't apply to you).
- Go to Advanced/Options and enter in -correct-pts, -mc 0, or -correct-pts -mc 0. I think there is a way to do this in the GUI in later versions, but this is the same.

Both players use ffmpeg so if something works in one, it should generally work in both. That being said, this means that personal preferences aside (like interface), if one works and the other doesn't, it's not a big deal and you should just use whatever works.

Now if you want to solve this, first you say this only affects runs with commentary? Does it have problems only when playing the second track, or does it lag even when playing the first track (i.e. ignoring the second track). First off, you have the latest version? (sorry, I know it's kinda old, I'm going to compile a new version during spring break in a couple weeks) Since your comp is powerful, it's probably a synch issue. With current settings, I've never had an issue with any video I've ever found, but I changed them significantly from defaults, so it's possible some of these changes are not good ideas for some people. If that's true I apologize.

Try one or more of the following:

- Change the video output driver in general. Try directx, gl2 (should be default for this build since it has greatest compatibility), and gl. Newest mplayer has direct3d as well I think, but that probably won't matter in this case.
- Most important thing I think: make sure in Performance, fast audio track switching is no.
- Try checking the audio/video auto synch (factor 100), but in my experience this doesn't do what I want (I have a nvidia geforce2mx though, so it's highly possible stuff I say doesn't apply to you).
- Go to Advanced/Options and enter in -correct-pts, -mc 0, or -correct-pts -mc 0. I think there is a way to do this in the GUI in later versions, but this is the same.