Jerky video playback

[Bret Busby]

On 15/6/23 00:28, Bret Busby wrote:
> On 14/6/23 21:01, Volker Wysk wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I have a problem with my machine. When I play a video, it often occurs 
>> that
>> the playback is jerky. It's hard to reproduce. When I stop it for a few
>> seconds, it runs smoothly for a while. The same happens when I "cat" 
>> it to
>> /dev/null.
>>
>> I'm using SMPlayer most of the time. When I tried VLC with a jerky video
>> lately, the video track became smooth. But the audio track became jerky
>> instead.
>>
> 
> When you get the jerkiness in SMPlayer, what are the video resolution 
> and frame speed?
> 
> Also, what is the file extension? Does it happen for .webm files and 
> .mp4 files?
> 
> What desktop environment are you using? If you have access to System 
> Monitor, what are the system load average and memory usage like, when 
> you are getting these problems?
> 
> Also, out of curiosity, because you have not referred (above) to using 
> it, have you tried viewing the problematic videos with Celluloid, and, 
> if so, do you get similar problems?
> 

And, in the context of my last paragraph above, similarly, do you get 
similar problems when viewing the problematic videos, with mpv?

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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