Problem playing avi files

[scrarfussi]

Something strange has started happening on my box I'm running opensuse 11 everything was working fine till a few day's ago all my avi video's when playing back using xine video freezes and jerks with mplayer i've got smooth playback but video is out of sync with the audio i have not changed anything on my system this has just happened out of the blue any body got any ideas What might be causing this

[gogalthorp]

Run top to see if you have a process eating CPU.

run glxgears from console and see if you have a good FPS rate ++1000

try it with a different user

I have noticed that Firefox 3 eats lots of CPU.

BTW KDE or Gnome??

[scrarfussi]

well i use kde but i just now tried with xfce and the vids play better so my problem is with kde glx gears gives me

6278 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1246.634 FPS
5660 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1130.669 FPS
6400 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1271.493 FPS
6520 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1303.652 FPS
6380 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1275.815 FPS
6434 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1286.797 FPS
6452 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1290.168 FPS
^C

[gogalthorp]

The FPS seem a bit slow to me but that depends on your graphics card and the system load. on my machine (NVIDIA 6800) and nothing else running I get 10,000+ FPS. So run top and see if one or more processes are using a large amount of CPU consistently.

Also create a new user account and log into it and see if the problem is there too. If it is not then there is a problem with your KDE configuration files.

[scrarfussi]

Thanx for your help i've found the problem to be mysql i use mysql for amarok and i had it on scan folders recursively that was using up too 80% cpu after disabling the scan folder feature from amarok all my video's seem to play fine and I'm a happy camper again
As to the problem of my fps Well they have alway's been that low on my graphics card I'm not really worried as long as my video's play fine thanx any How