video problem

[Christopher Chan]

On Tuesday, October 12, 2010 01:47 PM, Brian Hazelton wrote:
> i did a vmstat 1 and i did get some numbers around 60 when i opened or
> closed a prog, other than that nothing outragous, i was able to play
> chromium without the glitch.
> parole plays movies without the glitch as well, i am thinking it is just
> vlc that is screwing things up.

Ah, well the vlc packagers might like to get a bug report on it then. 
Enjoy your lappie for a few more years!


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> On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 13:29 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote:
>> On Tuesday, October 12, 2010 01:15 PM, Brian Hazelton wrote:
>>> flash is a little more glitchy, but my graphics card(integrated) is a
>>> pos so i dont expect flash to play well.
>>>
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>> 2006...I suppose Intel chipsets from time do not help with video
>> decoding...but your laptop should be able to play less strenuous
>> encodings like mpeg. How about also trying something like Chromium (the
>> game) and see whether you get that quarter second pause.
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>> It would be nice to also run 'vmstat 1' in a terminal and see whether
>> the numbers will correlate to the pauses or not. If the last number (wa
>> column) shoots from 0 to some high number, then we can also try using
>> atop to see if we can find a culprit that always shows up with you get
>> the pause.
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