I have problems playing videos on my Ubuntu 10.10 machine. The video FREEZES every 20-25 seconds, while I could still hear the audio. I use Totem Movie Player (GStreamer) & have nVidia on-board graphics card & AMD DualCore processor.
After some 5-10 seconds, the videos resume skipping the hung portion. But, I can hear the audio of that part! I've tried it with SMPlayer (GUI), VLC & Kaffeine. But, the same problem...
I recently uninstalled the nVidia drivers and since then, not even for a second, no video hung! So, I thought its the problem with the proprietary nVidia drivers. But, since its uninstalled, I'm not able to get the desired desktop resolution & effects. So, is there any way I can work it out?
mplayer
is great, especially because it's mainly has CLI interface (though it has got GUI too). So try to usemplayer
to play your video from terminal, and check the output of mplayer, what it prints there. Usually it gives more information you can use as diagnostics. I have multiple machines equipped with nVidia cards (but on-board ones) with the proprietary driver with a much weaker machine (old single core AMD CPU) but still, I haven't got this kind of problem. By the way, what happens after freeze? Does it continue after a while?top
in terminal while playing back to see if there is some kind of CPU-hungry happening during playback. I would also check the kernel log (or output of commanddmesg
), I had some kind of resource conflict in the past and kernel complained about it, which I could see at least ...